『権力の病理：誰が行使し誰が苦しむのか』（原書） Pathologies of Power : Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology)

Farmer, Paul/ Sen, Amartya (FRW)

University of California Press（2004/11発売）

University of California Press（2004/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 438 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520243262
• DDC分類 306.569

基本説明

邦訳：2012年4月・みすず書房
New in Paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. With a Foreword by Amartya Sen. Argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times.

Full Description

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.

Contents

Foreword by Amartya Sen
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I. BEARING WITNESS
1. On Suffering and Structural Violence
Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era
2. Pestilence and Restraint
Guantánamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine
3. Lessons from Chiapas
4. A Plague on All Our Houses?
Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia's Prisons

PART II. ONE PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS
5. Health, Healing, and Social Justice
Insights from Liberation Theology
6. Listening for Prophetic Voices
A Critique of Market-Based Medicine
7. Cruel and Unusual
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment
8. New Malaise
Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era
9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights
Time for a Paradigm Shift

Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index