Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
- ISBN-10
- 0520243269
- ISBN-13
- 9780520243262
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 402
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Paul Farmer
Description
"Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.
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