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Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.  Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse.   Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290291057013,"sku":"9780520243262","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520243262_ba75aa65-a746-424c-8fa1-39f16fe7f01f.jpg?v=1786014122"},{"product_id":"9780520321151","title":"To Repair the World – Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation","description":"Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer’s vision in a single, accessible volume.    A must-read for graduates, students, and everyone seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, To Repair the World:challenges readers to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to health care, safe drinking water, decent schools, and other basic human rightschampions the power of partnership against global poverty, climate change, and other pressing problems todayoverturns common assumptions about health disparities around the globe by considering the large-scale social forces that determine who gets sick and who has access to health carediscusses how hope, solidarity, faith, and hardbitten analysis have animated Farmer’s service to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and elsewhereleaves the reader with an uplifting vision: that with creativity, passion, teamwork, and determination, the next generations can make the world a safer and more humane place.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291609936245,"sku":"9780520321151","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520321151_80393c4f-82ce-40d8-8225-c7c2c45abd87.jpg?v=1786013461"},{"product_id":"9781800649132","title":"After the Miners' Strike","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39's creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reader is plunged into the national miners' strike and the collapse of Cornish tin mining, the impact of Thatcherism and 'Reaganomics', and the experience of touring Germany on the brink of reunification, alongside the influence on A39 of writers Bertolt Brecht, John McGrath and Keith Johnstone. Farmer, a former bus driver turned artistic director, details the theatre group's inception and development as it fought to break down social barriers, attract audiences, and survive with little more than a beaten-up Renault 12, a photocopier and two second-hand stage lights at its disposal: the book traces the progress from these raw materials to the development of an integrated community theatre practice for Cornwall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarmer's candour and humour enliven this unique insight into 1980s theatre and politics. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in theatre history, life in Cornwall, and the relationship between performance and society during a turbulent era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306669781365,"sku":"9781800649132","price":40.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"ec-tax-law","title":"EC Tax Law","description":"This new edition of EC Tax Law provides a detailed and extensive survey of EC tax legislation and case law. With the generalist lawyer in mind, the volume contains an introduction to VAT and to the basic principles of company taxation. It deals at some length with the legislation and case law on VAT (which is almost completely harmonized at the EC level) and excise duties. In relation to indirect taxation it analyses the case law on Article 90 of the EC Treaty which prohibits fiscal discrimination against goods from other Member States. In the area of direct taxation it covers the existing legislation on company taxation, and also the recent case law of the EC Court applying the treaty articles on the free movement of persons, services, and capital. The volume provides a detailed analysis of the legislation and its interpretation by the European Court, and also an analysis of the impact of the State aid rules in the tax field and the growing concern over what is often called unfair tax competition.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499269005685,"sku":"9780199264162","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-paul-farmer.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}