![]() ![]() The first, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (1992), chronicles Farmer's first decade of health work in Haiti, brilliantly describes the initial stages of central Haiti's attempts to make sense of the advent of AIDS, and painstakingly documents the sinister effects of U.S. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor is the latest in a series of books, each equally disturbing and compelling, that Farmer has published in the last decade. Farmer's is likely the most difficult to avoid. Modern medicine, increasingly driven by destructive market forces, needs more prophetic voices. He speaks truth to power with all the fury expected of the contemporary realist and with all the conviction necessary for the idealist. Repeatedly, he goes beyond what would be expected of such a multifaceted physician, anthropologist, and relief-worker. Once again, Paul Farmer proves himself a modern-day prophet. ![]()
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