{"product_id":"to-repair-the-world-9780520275973","title":"To Repair the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuitable 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"...[\u003ci\u003eTo Repair the World\u003c\/i\u003e] does not disappoint.\" * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"With humor and passion, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer advocates a cure for society and the planet.\" * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eTo Repair the World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Harriet A. Washington, * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402862371159,"sku":"9780520275973","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520275973.jpg?v=1730481710","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-repair-the-world-9780520275973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}