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.
Author(s): Paul Farmer
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 680
Contents......Page 8
Foreword: Seeing the Proof......Page 12
Introduction: The Right to Claim Rights......Page 16
PART 1. ETHNOGRAPHY, HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY......Page 40
Introduction to Part 1......Page 42
1. Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti (1988)......Page 48
2. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti (1990)......Page 77
3. The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Haiti (1990)......Page 109
4. Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection Among Poor Women in Haiti (1997)......Page 136
5. From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations (2006)......Page 151
PART 2. ANTHROPOLOGY AMID EPIDEMICS......Page 164
Introduction to Part 2......Page 166
6. Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" (1996, 1999)......Page 170
7. Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis (1997)......Page 189
8. Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti (1999)......Page 210
9. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment (1999)......Page 221
10. The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Twenty-First Century (2000)......Page 237
11. Social Medicine and the Challenge of Biosocial Research (2000)......Page 263
12. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World—To Treat or Not to Treat? (2001)......Page 281
13. Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Strengthens Primary Health Care: Lessons from Rural Haiti (2004)......Page 285
14. AIDS in 2006—Moving toward One World, One Hope? (2006)......Page 302
PART 3. STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE......Page 306
Introduction to Part 3......Page 308
15. Women, Poverty, and AIDS (1996)......Page 313
16. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era (1996, 2003)......Page 343
17. An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2001, 2004)......Page 365
18. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine (2006)......Page 391
19. Mother Courage and the Costs of War (2008)......Page 408
20. "Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths (2008)......Page 424
PART 4. HUMAN RIGHTS AND A CRITIQUE OF MEDICAL ETHICS......Page 442
Introduction to Part 4......Page 444
21. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift (1999, 2003)......Page 450
22. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below (2004)......Page 486
23. Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights (2005)......Page 502
24. Rich World, Poor World: Medical Ethics and Global Inequality (2006)......Page 543
25. Making Human Rights Substantial (2008)......Page 560
Conclusion: An Interview (2009)......Page 576
Acknowledgments......Page 592
Works Cited......Page 594
Editorial Note and Credits......Page 654
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B......Page 659
C......Page 660
D......Page 661
E......Page 662
G......Page 663
H......Page 664
I......Page 665
K......Page 666
M......Page 667
N......Page 668
P......Page 669
R......Page 670
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V......Page 674
Z......Page 675
