Pathologies of Power

Pathologies of Power explores the importance of promoting social and economic rights for the world's poor, as the most significant human rights issue of our time. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with decades of experience working in places like Haiti, Peru, and Russia, exposes the link between political and economic injustice and the suffering and illness of the powerless. Through passionate eyewitness accounts, Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and illustrates how racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. This urgent plea to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to our world.