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To Repair the World
Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
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To Repair the World is ideal for graduates, students, aspiring public servants, and anyone seeking to engage with social justice, global health, and activism. It especially resonates with those interested in medicine, biology, policy, and international development.
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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 Farmerβs 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 Farmerβs 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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Publishers Weekly praises the anthology for deepening readers' sense of responsibility and sacrifice required from future public servants. The Los Angeles Review of Books confirms it lives up to expectations, while Nature highlights Farmer's humour and passion in advocating societal and planetary cures. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine emphasises the book's timely inspiration, describing it as empowering for medical and biology graduates and anyone eager to effect change in health policy and human solidarity.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780520321151
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 November 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Contributors:
- Foreword by Bill Clinton
- Edited by Jonathan L. Weigel
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 296
About the Author
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.
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