Excerpt from Paul Farmer's "Pathologies of Power"

"By including social and economic rights in the struggle for human rights, we help to protect those most likely to suffer the insults of structural violence. [...] A preferential option for the poor, and all perspectives rooted in it, also offers a way out of the impasse in which many of us caregivers now find ourselves: selling our wares and services to those who can afford them, rather than making sure that they reach those who need them most. Allowing 'market forces' to sculpt the outlines of modern medicine will mean that these unwelcome trends will continue until we are forced to conclude that even the practice of medicine can constitute a human rights abuse."