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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing tales of life - and fatality - in extreme cases to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer argues that promoting the interpersonal and economic rights of the world's poor is the most crucial human rights struggle of the times. With ardent eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this e book links the lived activities of individual patients to a broader evaluation of structural violence. Farmer challenges normal thinking within human rights circles and exposes the interactions between political and monetary injustice, similarly, and the anguish and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same interpersonal forces that provide surge to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the techniques racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and fatality. Yet this e book is far from a hopeless inventory of maltreatment. Farmer's disturbing cases are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and interpersonal technologies will establish in tandem with a far more knowledgeable sense of interpersonal justice. Usually, he concludes, we are guilty of handling social inequality rather than handling structural violence.
