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To repair the world [electronic resource] : Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation / edited by Jonathan Weigel ; with a foreword by President Bill Clinton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.Description: xxvii, 266 pUniform titles:
  • Speeches. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.1 23
LOC classification:
  • RA418 .F36 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Reimagining equity -- pt. II. The future of medicine and the big picture -- pt. III. Health, human rights, and unnatural disasters -- pt. IV. Service, solidarity, social justice.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. I. Reimagining equity -- pt. II. The future of medicine and the big picture -- pt. III. Health, human rights, and unnatural disasters -- pt. IV. Service, solidarity, social justice.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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