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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Dr. Paul Farmer, physician and anthropologist, is the co-founder of Partners In Health, a non-profit organization that states that it has two major goals: ... to bring the benefits of modern...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
In the context of his examination of the work of Dr. Paul Farmer, a physician who dedicated his life to helping the poor, author Tracy Kidder attempts to illuminate the the internal contradictions...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Not a great deal is actually said to describe Haiti in the introduction of Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World. The one...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
The biggest idea is the devotion to helping others in need. Dr. Farmer, the hero in this story, commits himself to treating infectious disease in impoverished communities, particularly in Haiti....
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Paul Farmer uses his anthropological background to improve healthcare for the poor in Haiti. Anthropology refers to the study of a people including their culture, beliefs and socio-economic...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Dr. Paul Farmer, a dedicated humanitarian and physician who has devoted his life to providing medical care for the world’s poor, is affiliated with a nonprofit humanitarian organization called...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
It is impossible to live the kind of life Dr. Paul Farmer has lived without making sacrifices, not just of the material kind, but sacrifices of the personal kind as well. In his biography of Dr....
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
"I'm glad we came, because now we know how grim it is and we can intervene aggressively." These are the words of Dr. Paul Farmer, a specialist in infectious disease, toward the end of Tracy...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
One problem Farmer faced again and again in his work at the head of Partners in Health was the availability of funding for projects such as the health care center he was trying to build at Zanmi...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Paul Farmer's pioneering work in the field of global health, focusing on the problems of the world's poorest people, has included some groundbreaking work in the treatment of tuberculosis, a...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
In Peter Singer's The Singer Solution to World Poverty, he proposes that humans, especially those who are living comfortable lives, should donate all of their money to the impoverished of the world...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
If one is to look at the five chapters of the book and derive one lesson from each one, the five lessons might look something like the following: Chapter 1: It is clear that there are always going...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Some foundational barriers seem to exist in the hopes of exending health care to as many people as possible. The most relevant one is cost. As an industry, health care's cost are profound. Some...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Dr. Farmer as a medical anthropologist and social reformer decided to take it upon himself to DEMONSTRATE how to treat populations of sick people who are so poor or so destitute that they fall...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
According to the creator of the show,David Shore, the character of House was not even in the original idea for the drama. Shore has stated that "the show was sold as a crime/police procedural, but...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Paul connects with people in a number of ways, some of which, alas, may be too demanding for everyone to use them as models. First, he accepts the underlying value of every human being. That means...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
preferential option for the poor
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
I thought it was an outstanding story. About 3/4 the way through it could have been a tad more concise, but otherwise it was excellent.My book club of 20 years loved it.Most of us in this country...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
I'm sure Dokte Paul would agree with that sentiment, but I think we can focus it more. Paul Farmer believes that everyone in the world deserves the same treatment, and, especially, that there is...