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

Paul Farmer

Publié par University of California Press, le 16 novembre 2004

402 pages

Résumé

"Pathologies of Power is an eloquent plea for a working definition of human rights that would not neglect the most basic rights of all : food, shelter, and health. This plea has special potency because it comes from Dr. Farmer, a person who has proven that the dream of universal and comprehensive human rights is possible, and who has brought food, shelter, health, and hope to some of the poorest people on this earth."- Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains : Healing the World : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer (2003). "Pathologies of Power is a cry for those whose own shouts go unheard. It is a bitter dose of medicine doled out on behalf of the nameless, faceless millions who have no medicines of their own."- Maywa Montenegro, Boston Globe Book Section. "Paul Farmer is a superb physician, a penetrating anthropologist, and a prophet of social justice. He combines an unflinching moral stance-that the poor deserve health care just as much as the rich do-with scientific expertise and boundless dedication. He has saved the lives of countless destitute patients in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, and he has shown that effective health services, even complex medical regimens, can be put in place in impoverished communities." -Jeffrey Sachs, Natural History. "There are many kinds of gifted physicians : clinicians, researchers, and those who build institutions. Paul Farmer is the rarest of all : a prophet.... Pathologies of Power is a profound work ; it deserves the widest possible audience." -New England Journal of Medicine.

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