To Repair the World

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Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

By Paul Farmer

Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

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To Repair the World presents a powerful collection of short speeches by Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer, aiming to inspire the next generation to tackle global health equity and social justice challenges. Through engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring orations, Farmer highlights the social forces behind health disparities and urges readers to overcome imagination failures that deny billions access to basic human rights such as healthcare, safe water, and education. Drawing from his service in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and beyond, Farmer champions partnership, hope, faith, and hardbitten analysis as means to address poverty and climate change. His uplifting vision inspires creativity, passion, teamwork, and determination to make the world a safer, more humane place.
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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 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.

Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

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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

INFORMATION

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

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Paul Farmer Politics & Current Affairs Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

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.