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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer 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...
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California series in public anthropology volume 21
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University of California Press
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©2009
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359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"This powerful anthropological and photographic study plunges the reader into the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in their scramble for survival on the streets of San Francisco. Righteous Dopefiend is a vivid chronicle of intimate suffering, solidarity, and betrayal and a trenchant analysis of the...
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California series in public anthropology volume 23
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University of California Press
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©2010
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xii, 660 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients - and worked to address the root causes of their disease - in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere in the developing world. In 1987, with several...
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California series in public anthropology volume 27
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University of California Press
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[2013]
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xxiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Based on five years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care"--Publisher description.
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California series in public anthropology volume 36
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English
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"Anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time--the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and death that take place daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross from Mexico into the United States. Drawing on the four major fields of anthropology, De León uses an innovative combination of ethnography,...
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