Paul Farmer notes that there are three reasons why structural violence is hard to see . 1. Suffering is exoticized--that is, when something/someone is distant or far away, individuals tend to not be affected by it. When suffering lacks proximity, it's easy to exoticise. 2. The weight of suffering is also impossible to comprehend. There is simply no way that many individuals are able to comprehend what suffering is like. 3. Lastly, the dynamics and distribution of suffering are still poorly understood. Women, Poverty%DIFDELCMD < & %%% AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence (Series in Health and Social Justice), with coauthor Margaret Connors, Common Courage Press; Reprint edition (September 1996),
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