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

438 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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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