Publication: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 1052 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Jain, Eisha
Article Excerpt
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer Publisher: University of California Press (2003) Price: $27.50
Pathologies of Power (1) opens with Paul Farmer's account of a visit to a refugee camp in the highlands of Guatemala. Farmer uses the setting of the camp as a way of illustrating a larger point about the ideology that ought to guide health care. He contrasts two approaches to health care reform that have played out in the camp. One initiative, developed in Guatemala City, involves a series of refugee rehabilitation workshops on themes such as gender sensitivity. The other proposal, developed by the refugees, involves exhuming mass graves where genocide victims have been buried by the Guatemalan army. The survivors tell Farmer that the dead have been "buried with their eyes open" and cannot know peace until they receive a proper burial. Farmer sees this project as a valuable way for health workers...
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