Partner to the Poor : A Paul Farmer Reader.
Title:
Partner to the Poor : A Paul Farmer Reader.
Author:
Farmer, Paul.
ISBN:
9780520945630
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (726 pages)
Series:
California Series in Public Anthropology ; v.23
California Series in Public Anthropology
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Seeing the Proof -- Introduction: The Right to Claim Rights -- Part 1 - Ethnography, History, Political Economy -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1 - Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti (1988) -- Chapter 2 - Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti (1990) -- Chapter 3 - The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Haiti (1990) -- Chapter 4 - Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection among Poor Women in Haiti (1997) -- Chapter 5 - From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations (2006) -- Part 2 - Anthropology amid Epidemics -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 6 - Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" (1996, 1999) -- Chapter 7 - Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis (1997) -- Chapter 8 - Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti (1999) -- Chapter 9 - Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment (1999) -- Chapter 10 - The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Twenty-First Century (2000) -- Chapter 11 - Social Medicine and the Challenge of Biosocial Research (2000) -- Chapter 12 - The Major Infectious Diseases in the World-To Treat or Not to Treat? (2001) -- Chapter 13 - Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Strengthens Primary Health Care: Lessons from Rural Haiti (2004) -- Chapter 14 - AIDS in 2006-Moving toward One World, One Hope? (2006) Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer -- Part 3 - Structural Violence -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Chapter 15 - Women, Poverty, and AIDS (1996) -- Chapter 16 - On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era (1996, 2003) -- Chapter 17 - An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2001, 2004).
Chapter 18 - Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine (2006) Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee -- Chapter 19 - Mother Courage and the Costs of War (2008) -- Chapter 20 - "Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths (2008) -- Part 4 - Human Rights and a Critique of Medical Ethics -- Introduction to Part 4: Paul Farmer -- Chapter 21 - Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift(1999, 2003) -- Chapter 22 - Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below (2004) Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos -- Chapter 23 - Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights (2005) -- Chapter 24 - Rich World, Poor World: Medical Ethics and Global Inequality (2006) -- Chapter 25 - Making Human Rights Substantial (2008) -- Conclusion: An Interview (2009) -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Editorial Note and Credits -- Index -- California Series in Public Anthropology.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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