Paul Farmer’s scientific contributions

... Abuse and subordination like this can be propagated by machismo cultural behaviours, with the cultural message that women are inferior to men [52]. Such practices are rooted in historical processes that have facilitated and justified differences in power and status between men and women, representing a powerful example of structural violence with cultural legitimisation [53]. Further to this, cultural idealisation of the nuclear family structure not only precipitated discrimination against single adolescent mothers but forced them out of familial households and put them into more vulnerable or dangerous positions. ...

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Adolescent pregnancy amongst displaced women in Bogota: playing between the barbs of structural violence—a qualitative study