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

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

Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

438 pages | first published 2003

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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories 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 working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, a...
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