To Repair the World Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Paul Farmer is cofounder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His most recent book is Reimagining Global Health. Other titles include To Repair the World, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor; Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues; and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, all by UC Press."[Farmer] offers an anthology of 19 speeches on global health initiatives delivered between 2001 and 2012. . . .[from which ] readers will emerge with a heightened sense of the responsibilities and sacrifices required of future public servants."
Publishers Weekly
"...[<i>To Repair the World</i>] does not disappoint."
Los Angeles Review of Books
""With humor and passion, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer advocates a cure for society and the planet."
Nature
"The publication of this book is timely. It would make a perfect gift for a medical or biology graduate, but it would be inspiring to anyone who reads it. His speeches make one feel empowered ― to make a difference, to contribute to health policy, to accompany another who is struggling. In the speeches collected in <i>To Repair the World</i>, Dr. Farmer teaches us crucial lessons that we must all learn from, as scientists, as doctors, and as human beings."
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
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 rights
- champions the power of partnership against global poverty, climate change, and other pressing problems today
- overturns 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 care
- discusses how hope, solidarity, faith, and hardbitten analysis have animated Farmer’s service to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and elsewhere
- leaves 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.
Introduction by Jonathan Weigel
Part I: Reimagining Equity
General Anesthesia for the (Young Doctor’s) Soul?
Brown Medical School, Commencement 2001
Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis: Turning Road Angst into Hope—and Action
Boston College, Commencement 2005
Three Stories, Three Paradigms, and a Critique of Social Entrepreneurship
Skoll World Forum, Oxford University 2008
The Story of the Inhaler
College of the Holy Cross, Commencement 2012
Countering Failures of Imagination
Northwestern University, Commencement 2012
Part II: The Future of Medicine and the Big Picture
If You Take the Red Pill: Reflections on the Future of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Class Day 2003
Medicine as a Vocation
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2004
Haiti After the Earthquake
Harvard Medical School, Talks@Twelve Speaker Series 2010
The Tetanus Speech
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2010
Part III: Health, Human Rights, and Unnatural Disasters
Global Health Equity and the Missing Weapons of Mass Salvation
Harvard School of Public Health, Commencement 2004
Making Public Health Matter
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Commencement 2006
Unnatural Disasters and the Right to Health Care
Tulane School of Medicine, Commencement 2008
Exploring the Adjacent Possible
Georgetown University, Commencement 2011
Part IV: Service, Solidarity, Social Justice
Who Stands Fast?
Union Theological Seminary, Union Medal Acceptance Speech 2006
Courage and Compassion in the Time of Guantánamo
Emory University, Commencement 2007
Spirituality and Justice
All Saints Parish (Brookline, MA), Spirituality and Justice Award Acceptance Speech 2008
Making Hope and History Rhyme
Princeton University, Commencement 2008
The Drum Major Instinct
Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration 2009
Accompaniment as Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Commencement 2011
Notes
Acknowledgments
“Whenever there is a need, Paul is the first guy out the door. His humility is legendary and one hundred percent genuine. Medical students all over the world have told me they entered our shared profession because of Dr. Paul Farmer. Now, it is time for the rest of the planet to be inspired, and in these pages they learn what it takes To Repair the World.”—Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN and Associate Chief of Neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine
“Here is Paul at those special moments when we want and need a moral exemplar, calling us to do what good we can for those who have nothing, who are broken, who are left behind, who are sick and disabled, who need to be accompanied, and whose betterment betters us.”—Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University
“Paul Farmer has a knack for persuading an audience to participate in his lectures, whether aloud or in silence. The liveliness of his talks comes in part from his delivery, but also from the qualities of the lectures themselves: the freshness of their ideas, their wit, and their passion. And these, thankfully, are qualities which this collection preserves.”—Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine, Among Schoolchildren, Mountains Beyond Mountains, and other titles.
“Paul Farmer is the most compelling voice for justice in a generation. In this volume are the stories and insights that have helped thousands of students imagine—and fight for—a better world. Read this to be inspired. Read this to learn. Most importantly, when you’re done, give this book to a friend and join the movement for health equity.”—Jonny Dorsey, cofounder of FACE AIDS and Global Health Corps