Human rights Quote by Paul Farmer Download Open image “...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.” — Paul Farmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human rights Justice Medicine Social Social justice World
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“If medicine is socialized, malpractice suits will disappear because the government will refuse to submit to them.” — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine. — James B. Utt Copy Share Image
“When medicine is socialized, when you have true universal health care, when everyone's treatment is the same regardless of socioeconomic station, those strong-arming attitudes of entitlement just aren't part of the vocabulary. This atrium, this lovely space in a hospital with a world-class reputation, is actually the equivalent of a state hospital. That American sense that someone somewhere else is… — David Rakoff Copy Share
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“medicine is undergoing a tremendous conceptual revolution. Twentieth-century medicine aimed to heal the sick. Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy. Healing… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I found out about Sister Song through Poppy Liu, who's on the show 'Hacks.' Reproductive rights are human rights, and I wanted to shine… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“. The understanding that what is good supports basic human rights and anything that threatens it is bad. We do not need a supernatural… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
