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Farmer, Paul Edward was born on October 26, 1959.
( Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly ...)
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering. Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions—remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.
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( Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of lifeand...)
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of lifeand deathin extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world’s poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer’s urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world’s poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
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(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New W...)
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, With a New Preface by the Author (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) PaperbackPaul Farmer (Foreword) , Amartya Sen (Foreword)Paul Farmer (Foreword)
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( The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable m...)
The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters—uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in its bitter fate.—Noam Chomsky, from the introduction In this third edition of the classic The Uses of Haiti, Paul Farmer looks at what has happened to the health of the poor in Haiti since the coup. Winner of a McArthur Genius Award, Paul Farmer is a physician and anthropologist who has worked for 25 years in Haiti, where he serves as medical director of a hospital serving the rural poor. He is the subject of the Tracy Kidder biography, Mountains Beyond Mountains.
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( Does the scientific theory” that HIV came to North Ame...)
Does the scientific theory” that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
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Farmer, Paul Edward was born on October 26, 1959.
Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1990.
Co-founder, executive vice president Partners in Health, since 1987. Presley professor medical anthropology department social medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston, since 1995. Attending physician division infectious disease Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Medical co-director Clinique Bon Sauveur, Haiti. Member international science committee ids. Coordinator berculosis.
Member Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course-Plus working group for the global tuberculosis programme World Health Organization, member science committee working group on Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course-Plus for MDR-Tuberculosis. Chief advisor tuberculosis programs Open Society Institute. Chief medical consultant tuberculosis treatment project in prisons of Tomsk (Siberia) Public Health Research Institute.
Member Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bureau Communicable Disease Control. Member science review board 10 international conferences on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Deputy special envoy to Haiti United Nations, since 2009.
( Does the scientific theory” that HIV came to North Ame...)
(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New W...)
( The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable m...)
( Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of lifeand...)
( Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly ...)
(Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul F...)
Member of American Academy Arts & Sciences, Institute of Medicine (life).
Married Didi Bertrand. 1 child Catherine.