Health Promotion Practice October 2004 Vol. 5, No. 4, 372-376 Ideologies and
Pathologies of Power: Two Books That Contribute to the Cause of Innovative
Public Health Theory, Practice, and Promotion Hofrichter, R.

(Ed.). (2003). Health

and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of
Disease. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 688 pages. ISBN 0-7879-6733-5.

Paperback. $55.00.

 

Farmer, P. (2003). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New
War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press. 419 pages. ISBN
0-520-23550-9. Hardcover. $27.50.

 

If there is any doubt that the sciences of health promotion and disease
prevention are in a state of crisis, the publications of Health and Social
Justice and Pathologies of Power should dispel this uncertainty. The array
of articles included in Health and Social Justice and the relentless
examples of Paul Farmer's work in Pathologies of Power  demonstrate that
physicians, public health practitioners, researchers, and policy makers have
not found and implemented appropriate responses to public health's most
difficult challenges of improving the health of the poor and eliminating
ethnic, gender, and class disparities in health... SNIP

 

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