"Here are highlights from Paul Farmers' speeches to a variety of audiences, from Princeton to Harvard to Notre Dame to Berkeley. Paul is a rock star of the academy who has a large following among many groups: students, doctors, general readers, activists, public health folks, professors. He is the pied piper of everyone who wants to change the world. Not only is he cofounder of Partners In Health,US Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti,head of social medicine at Harvard, but he's also a charming, humorous, engaging public speaker whose charisma is legend. In this book, conceived of as a graduation gift for students write large, Farmer addresses the challenges facing young people with a call for them to change the world and become activists"--
Offers a collection of short speeches by charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer, an influential voice for global health equity and social justice.
Offers a collection of short speeches by doctor and social activist Paul Farmer, an influential voice for global health equity and social justice.
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmers vision in a single, accessible volume.
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 Farmers 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.
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"[ 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 * "...[ To Repair the World] 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 To Repair the World, 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 * "Paul Farmers anthology of speeches offers shorter narratives suited to a busy leader that exude a moral philosophy, blueprint, case histories and deep inspiration for the change of heart that must fuel American atonement and national healing. -- Harriet A. Washington, * New York Times *
Foreword by President Bill Clinton 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 Guantanamo
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
Paul Farmer is co-founder 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; 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.
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