Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

By Paul Farmer

Categories: Medical Books, Politics & Social Sciences

Physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer draws on his work in Haiti, Peru and Russia to argue that the social and economic rights of the poor deserve a central place in the cause of human rights. Illness and early death, he contends, follow lines of poverty and inequality. Through eyewitness accounts from Russian prisons and villages in Haiti and Chiapas, Farmer links individual suffering to structural violence, arguing that the forces behind HIV and tuberculosis also shape the risk of rights abuses.

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