Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. W...(展开全部)

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. W...(展开全部)

Mental disorders are ubiquitous, profoundly disabling and people suffering from them frequently endure the worst conditions of life. In recent decades both mental health and human rights have emerged as areas of practice, inquiry, national policy-making and shared international concern. Human-rights monitoring and reporting are core features of public administration in most cou...(展开全部)

Since adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the interpretive General Comment 1, the topic of legal capacity in mental health settings has generated considerable debate in disciplines ranging from law and psychiatry to public health and public policy. With over 180 countries having ratified the Convention, the shifts required in law and clinic...(展开全部)

威廉·伊斯特利（William Easterly），世界银行前首席经济学家,目前为纽约大学经济学系教授、纽约大学发展研究院院长。被《外交政策》杂志评为全球100名最杰出的公共知识分子，全球最多引用次数的100名经济学家之一。著有全球畅销书《白种人的负担》。

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert” solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats,” leaving ...(展开全部)

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert” solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats,” leaving ...(展开全部)

威廉·伊斯特利（William Easterly），世界银行前首席经济学家,目前为纽约大学经济学系教授、纽约大学发展研究院院长。被《外交政策》杂志评为全球100名最杰出的公共知识分子，全球最多引用次数的100名经济学家之一。著有全球畅销书《白种人的负担》。