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Book SynopsisSuitable for graduates, students, and everyone seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, this title 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.
Trade Review"[Farmer] offers an anthology of 19 speeches on global health initiatives delivered between 2001 and 2012 . . . [from which ] readers will emerge with a heightened sense of the responsibilities and sacrifices required of future public servants." * Publishers Weekly *
"...[
To Repair the World] does not disappoint." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
"With humor and passion, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer advocates a cure for society and the planet." * Nature *
"The publication of this book is timely. It would make a perfect gift for a medical or biology graduate, but it would be inspiring to anyone who reads it. His speeches make one feel empowered ― to make a difference, to contribute to health policy, to accompany another who is struggling. In the speeches collected in
To Repair the World, Dr. Farmer teaches us crucial lessons that we must all learn from, as scientists, as doctors, and as human beings." * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *
"Paul Farmer’s anthology of speeches offers shorter narratives suited to a busy leader that exude a moral philosophy, blueprint, case histories and deep inspiration for the change of heart that must fuel American atonement and national healing.”
-- Harriet A. Washington, * New York Times *
Table of ContentsForeword by President Bill Clinton Introduction by Jonathan Weigel Part I: Reimagining Equity General Anesthesia for the (Young Doctor's) Soul? Brown Medical School, Commencement 2001 Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis: Turning Road Angst into Hope--and Action Boston College, Commencement 2005 Three Stories, Three Paradigms, and a Critique of Social Entrepreneurship Skoll World Forum, Oxford University 2008 The Story of the Inhaler College of the Holy Cross, Commencement 2012 Countering Failures of Imagination Northwestern University, Commencement 2012 Part II: The Future of Medicine and the Big Picture If You Take the Red Pill: Reflections on the Future of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Class Day 2003 Medicine as a Vocation University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2004 Haiti After the Earthquake Harvard Medical School, Talks@Twelve Speaker Series 2010 The Tetanus Speech University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2010 Part III: Health, Human Rights, and Unnatural Disasters Global Health Equity and the Missing Weapons of Mass Salvation Harvard School of Public Health, Commencement 2004 Making Public Health Matter Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Commencement 2006 Unnatural Disasters and the Right to Health Care Tulane School of Medicine, Commencement 2008 Exploring the Adjacent Possible Georgetown University, Commencement 2011 Part IV: Service, Solidarity, Social Justice Who Stands Fast? Union Theological Seminary, Union Medal Acceptance Speech 2006 Courage and Compassion in the Time of Guantanamo Emory University, Commencement 2007 Spirituality and Justice All Saints Parish (Brookline, MA), Spirituality and Justice Award Acceptance Speech 2008 Making Hope and History Rhyme Princeton University, Commencement 2008 The Drum Major Instinct Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration 2009 Accompaniment as Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Commencement 2011 Notes Acknowledgments
