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, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
發表於2024-12-25
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斷斷續續地看完這本書的,每次看瞭幾十頁就放下,已然飆淚瞭,怕一口氣看完會憋成內傷。看完之後很長一段時間內,都不知道該說這本書寫得好,還是不好。因為說它寫得好,那是把閱讀的愉悅建立在書中每一個人生苦難之上。 一個小姑娘,因為傢裏窮,姊妹又多,她先是和一個士兵...
評分斷斷續續地看完這本書的,每次看瞭幾十頁就放下,已然飆淚瞭,怕一口氣看完會憋成內傷。看完之後很長一段時間內,都不知道該說這本書寫得好,還是不好。因為說它寫得好,那是把閱讀的愉悅建立在書中每一個人生苦難之上。 一個小姑娘,因為傢裏窮,姊妹又多,她先是和一個士兵...
評分斷斷續續地看完這本書的,每次看瞭幾十頁就放下,已然飆淚瞭,怕一口氣看完會憋成內傷。看完之後很長一段時間內,都不知道該說這本書寫得好,還是不好。因為說它寫得好,那是把閱讀的愉悅建立在書中每一個人生苦難之上。 一個小姑娘,因為傢裏窮,姊妹又多,她先是和一個士兵...
評分斷斷續續地看完這本書的,每次看瞭幾十頁就放下,已然飆淚瞭,怕一口氣看完會憋成內傷。看完之後很長一段時間內,都不知道該說這本書寫得好,還是不好。因為說它寫得好,那是把閱讀的愉悅建立在書中每一個人生苦難之上。 一個小姑娘,因為傢裏窮,姊妹又多,她先是和一個士兵...
評分斷斷續續地看完這本書的,每次看瞭幾十頁就放下,已然飆淚瞭,怕一口氣看完會憋成內傷。看完之後很長一段時間內,都不知道該說這本書寫得好,還是不好。因為說它寫得好,那是把閱讀的愉悅建立在書中每一個人生苦難之上。 一個小姑娘,因為傢裏窮,姊妹又多,她先是和一個士兵...
圖書標籤: 人類學 醫學人類學 人類學 public_health 海地 public idol human
感覺Farmer的introduction理論框架還可以再推進一步
評分感覺Farmer的introduction理論框架還可以再推進一步
評分把neoliberalism這種變幻莫測的概念當成一個靶子攻擊實在不夠高明,拒絕接受任何摺衷主義直接反對醫療私有化也確實是很敢,可惜他professional的身份和知識沒有幫他justify任何一項主張,隻能說他自己的經曆讓他比那些養尊處優的傻白甜liberal更有底氣說這些話而已吧。
評分感覺Farmer的introduction理論框架還可以再推進一步
評分四星半。Medical anthropology讀到現在,應該隻有Nancy Shepherd-Hughes那樣的writing纔能真的打到五星。Farmer 和 Kleinman 都還差一點點。
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