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To Repair the World Paul Farmer

To Repair the World By Paul Farmer

To Repair the World by Paul Farmer


To Repair the World Summary

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer

Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. 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 Farmer's 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 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.

To Repair the World Reviews

[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 *

About Paul Farmer

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

GOR012599941
9780520321151
0520321154
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
2019-11-19
296
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