Paul Farmer's Pathologies Of Power

In Pathologies of Power, Paul Farmer associates his experiences as a physician and analyzes the main problems within society today. He focuses on a favorable working condition that puts the well-being, health and human rights of people into account. He also speaks out for those people whose voices cannot be heard and have no treatment to diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS and yet they have the right to access this medicine. He combines a firm exemplary attitude and advocates for the poor to deserve health care just as much as the rich. Farmer goes ahead to criticize the unjust violation of human rights by those in power who torture, imprison without due process. This structural violence involving the denial of free will, shelter, education …show more content…
The people end up being displaced from their homes and have their produce disrupted due to the unjust measures of the authorities in power. The displaced people therefore find means to resettle in different areas comprised with unproductive land thus resulting in to starvation and such social issues spark off poverty. All these problems are connected to economic, social and political frameworks far outside the power of those influenced. Such cases of structural violence therefore are based on dynamics of rights violations and the struggle to understand power and its connections towards the abuse of rights. Farmer provides a strong illustration of how such issues lead to exploitation of the poorest of people and amplifies health problems. He argues that the aid in health has declined miserably and public health should be connected to social justice because the distribution of these services and privileges to the people within the society should be a nations top priority but in this case the authorities abuse it. Poverty also endangers the public because it limits them from accessing social services like health care and absence of treatment to those unable to pay is authorized in the free market …show more content…
Employing the ethical altercations of Amartya Sen, the author focuses on the global health and the absence of suffering as a moral point over any interests for the market system. He is analytical about cultural connections and he acknowledges predominance with health care ethics. He argues that these connections adequately result to an absence of advocacy on the side of the poor and suffering from the doctors who he considers will control a general concern towards the suffering of the needy in the third world. This therefore shows both understanding and negative issues whereby Famer indicates that the level of poverty in the third world is dependent upon the unfair treatment of the