Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor /

Main Author: Farmer, Paul, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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245 1 |a Pathologies of power :  |b health, human rights, and the new war on the poor /  |c Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen. 
260 1 |a Berkeley :  |b University of California Press,  |c c2003. 
300 1 |a xxiv, 402 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index. 
505 1 |a Introduction: Bearing witness; On suffering and structural violence; Pestilence and restraint; Lessons from Chiapas; A plague on all our houses? -- One physician's perspective on human rights; Health, healing, and social justice; Listening for prophetic voices; Cruel and unusual; New malaise; Rethinking health and human rights -- Afterword. 
650 1 |a Social stratification 
650 1 |a Equality 
650 1 |a Poor  |x Medical care 
650 1 |a Discrimination in medical care 
650 1 |a Right to health care 
650 1 |a Human rights 
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