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Chapter 6 continues to focus on Paul Farmer's background; this chapter shifts focus to Paul himself and especially to his experience in higher education. As a child, Farmer had been very gifted intellectually. In college, he really blossomed, both intellectually and socially. He had many friends at Duke and took the opportunity to study in Paris, where he took a course with the famous anthropologist Claude-Levi Strauss. After studying broadly in the sciences, Farmer focused on...
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