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

Email This Item to a Friend Pathologies of Power: Health Human Rights and the New War on the Poor Paul Farmer Paperback Get other General Politics here "This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. "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 "The Soul of a New Machine and "Home Town "Farmer's brilliance and charisma leap from the pages of his book. He challenges us to face the urgent theoretical and political challenges of the twenty-first century by linking structural violence to embodied social suffering and in the process calls for a new definition of human rights. Once this book is out, we will no longer be able to remain complacently--or rather, complicitly--on th... Regularly: AUD 35.65 On Sale: AUD 31.57 We are closed until Oct 16 2010

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