Paul Farmer

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights....

Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer....

A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Paul Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against the modern plagues of AIDS and tuberculosis and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor....

On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished....