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

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

Paul Farmer

402 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience studying diseases in Ha...

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