Partner to the poor : a Paul Farmer reader / / Paul Farmer ; edited by Haun Saussy

• Autore: Farmer Paul <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (679 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1086/942
• Soggetto topico: Poor - Medical care; Medical anthropology; Social medicine; Epidemiology; Public health
• Altri autori: SaussyHaun <1960->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword: Seeing the Proof -- Introduction: The Right to Claim Rights -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti (1988) -- 2. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti (1990) -- 3. The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Haiti (1990) -- 4. Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection among Poor Women in Haiti (1997) -- 5. From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations (2006) -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 6. Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" (1996, 1999) -- 7. Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis (1997) -- 8. Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti (1999) -- 9. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment (1999) -- 10. The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Twenty-First Century (2000) -- 11. Social Medicine and the Challenge of Biosocial Research (2000) -- 12. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World-To Treat or Not to Treat? (2001) -- 13. Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Strengthens Primary Health Care: Lessons from Rural Haiti (2004) -- 14. AIDS in 2006-Moving toward One World, One Hope? (2006) -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 15. Women, Poverty, and AIDS (1996) -- 16. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era (1996, 2003) -- 17. An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2001, 2004) -- 18. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine (2006) -- 19. Mother Courage and the Costs of War (2008) -- 20. "Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths (2008) -- Introduction to Part 4 -- 21. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift (1999, 2003) -- 22. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below (2004) -- 23. Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights (2005) -- 24. Rich World, Poor World: Medical Ethics and Global Inequality (2006) -- 25. Making Human Rights Substantial (2008) -- Conclusion: An Interview (2009) -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Editorial Note and Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 colleagues, he founded Partners In Health to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Throughout his career, Farmer has written eloquently and extensively on these efforts. Partner to the Poor collects his writings from 1988 to 2009 on anthropology, epidemiology, health care for the global poor, and international public health policy, providing a broad overview of his work. It illuminates the depth and impact of Farmer's contributions and demonstrates how, over time, this unassuming and dedicated doctor has fundamentally changed the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Partners In Health.
• Titolo autorizzato: Partner to the poor
• ISBN: 1-282-53178-6; 9786612531781; 0-520-94563-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817597403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California Series in Public Anthropology