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Book SynopsisDoes the scientific theory that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Addressing the question, this is an ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society.Trade Review"Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at [the village of] Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge.... The book is at the same time fiercely personal and coldly objective. The result is both moving and illuminating." - Science "Farmer renders a richly layered and nuanced ethnographic portrait." - Harvard Educational Review "This superbly crafted volume is dedicated to explaining and refuting a popular U.S. belief that AIDS came to the United States from Haiti.... Farmer has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the 'anthropology of suffering,' the assessment of illness as perceived and experienced by a patient embedded in an interlocking fabric of culture and history." - Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Table of ContentsPreface to the 2006 Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Part I: Misfortunes without Number 2 The Water Refugees 3 The Remembered Valley 4 The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay 5 The Struggle for Health 6 1986 and After: Narrative Truth and Political Change Part II: AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village 7 Manno 8 Anita 9 Dieudonne 10 "A Place Ravaged by AIDS" Part III: The Exotic and the Mundane: HIV in Haiti 11 A Chronology of the AIDS/HIV Epidemic in Haiti 12 HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem 13 Haiti and the "Accepted Risk Factors" 14 AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic" Part IV: AIDS, History, Political Economy 15 Many Masters: The European Domination of Haiti 16 The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Years of Solitude 17 The United States and the People with History Part V: AIDS and Accusation 18 AIDS and Sorcery: Accusation in the Village 19 AIDS and Racism: Accusation in the Center 20 AIDS and Empire: Accusation in the Periphery 21 Blame, Cause, Etiology, and Accusation 22 Conclusion: AIDS and an Anthropology of Suffering Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, this book points out that most explanatory strategies, from 'cost-effectiveness' to patient 'noncompliance,' inevitably lead to blaming the victims.Trade Review"The only things that distinguish Farmer's account from a Dostoevskian novel is a meed of hard, effective science and a depressingly familiar story of the powerfully malignant of racism.... It is hard to think of more compelling examples to underpin his arguments. It makes the book and its message accessible to the general reader and forcefully reminds doctors, nurses, scientists, sociologists, economists and aid workers of their unfinished business.... But the main lessons he draws are for us all. We must do all we can to diminish social inequality." - Hugh Pennington, Times Higher Education Supplement "A strangely uplifting read. Infections and Inequalities is a powerful and rigorously argued critique of economic and health care inequality." - Phil Whitaker, The Guardian (UK) "Bolstered by thorough knowledge of the countries in which he practiced, relevant and cogent case histories, and a caring but disciplined attitude, Farmer powerfully argues for substantial changes in epidemiological theory and practice. He raises thought-provoking and necessary questions, and he provides answers that, if often unsettling, are pertinent and capable of being put to use by individuals and governments truly interested in solving, not sidestepping, life-threatening situations." - William Beatty, Booklist"Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories 2. Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" 3. Invisible Women: Class, Gender, and HIV 4. The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Vrrus in the Caribbean 5. Culture, Poverty, and ffiV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti Miracles and Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude 6. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti 7. The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis .in the Late Twentieth Century 8. Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti 9. Immodest Claims of Causality: Social Scientists and the "New" Tuberculosis 10. The Persistent Plagues: Biological Expressions of Social Inequalities Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In his compelling book, Farmer captures the central dilemma of our times - the increasing disparities of health and well-being within and among societies. While all member countries of the United Nations denounce the gross violations of human rights perpetrated by those who torture, murder, or imprison without due process, the insidious violations of human rights due to structural violence involving the denial of economic opportunity, decent housing, or access to health care and education are commonly ignored. Pathologies of Power makes a powerful case that our very humanity is threatened by our collective failure to end these abuses." - Robert S. Lawrence, President of Physicians for Human Rights and Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University "This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. Pathologies of Power is an eloquent plea for a working definition of human rights that would not neglect the most basic rights of all: food, shelter, and health. This plea has special potency because it comes from Dr. Farmer, a person who has proven that the dream of universal and comprehensive human rights is possible, and who has brought food, shelter, health, and hope to some of the poorest people on this earth." - Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer"Table of ContentsForeword by Amartya Sen Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. BEARING WITNESS 1. On Suffering and Structural Violence Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era 2. Pestilence and Restraint Guantánamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine 3. Lessons from Chiapas 4. A Plague on All Our Houses? Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia’s Prisons PART II. ONE PHYSICIAN’S PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS 5. Health, Healing, and Social Justice Insights from Liberation Theology 6. Listening for Prophetic Voices A Critique of Market-Based Medicine 7. Cruel and Unusual Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment 8. New Malaise Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights Time for a Paradigm Shift Afterword Notes Bibliography Credits Index

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Trade Review"Mark Schuller's ethnography of pre- and post-earthquake disaster Haiti is profoundly riveting, poignant, and courageous. It offers a timely no-holds-barred critique and theoretically nuanced analysis of neoliberal NGO-ization and humanitarian aid. The book also provides an inspiring vision and thougtful recommendations for remedying the problems of 'trickle down imperialism.' This is an important contribution that convincingly explains why we should care about what's happening in Haiti and the troubling implications for elsewhere—including right here in the USA." -- Faye V. Harrison * author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age *"Schuller's analysis of two NGOs is a singular contribution to our understanding of such organizations in underdeveloped countries." -- Mark Schuller * Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University *"Mark Schuller provides something that has been sorely lacking from this story—an ethnographic account of nongovernmental politics in Haiti, a country many now dub 'the Republic of NGOs.'" * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Killing with Kindness offers both engaging ethnographic examples and extensive analysis of the complex network of governmental and nongovernmental institutions through which Haiti and Haitians are ruled. * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesForeword by Paul FarmerAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Doing Research during a Coup1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below"3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside"4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above"5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of HaitiConclusion: Killing with Kindness?Afterword: Some Policy SolutionsNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cite Soleil, this book demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so often thwarts well-intended policy initiatives. It argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning.Table of ContentsForeword: Unraveling Fertility and Power by Paul FarmerAcknowledgements Acronyms 1 Introduction: When Pigs Feasted and People Starved 2 Interpretations of Reproduction: Demography, Anthropology, and the Political Economy of Fertility 3 Gender and Survival: Living on the Edge in Cité Soleil 4 The Family Planning Center: A Clinic in Conflict 5 A Community Consumed: Fire, Politics, and Health Care 6 The Political Economy of International Aid: Grounding Ethnography, Engaging History 7 Health in Haiti: Producing EquityEpilogue Appendix: Organizations Supporting COmprehensive Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe radically humanistic essays inArc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book’s multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today’s world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, SalmaaTrade Review“This is a book about life and death and about the aftermath of death. That alone makes it relevant to our species and to others, but Arc of Interference is also a book about the possibility of something more and something wonderful: across the continents, people struggle to care for one another.” -- Paul Farmer, from the Foreword“In this rich collection, leading medical anthropologists demonstrate ethnography as care. Attending to intimate realities and to the productive power of narrative, they use anthropology for collective healing.” -- Helena Hansen, coauthor of * Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America *“Arc of Interference is essential reading for anyone who cares about our troubled times. Its ethnographic creations mend what is broken by asking us to listen, care, and act.” -- Angela Garcia, author of * The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *“A major undertaking of humanist anthropology, this volume insists on the necessity of medical anthropology for facing the great challenges of our time, from pandemics and structural violence to climate change and political oppression. Arc of Interference is a milestone in medical anthropology.” -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor of * Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda *“Biehl, Adams, and their contributors have . . . penned a classic in Arc of Interference. . . . In our current times of reckoning–both global and disciplinary–contributions like Arc of Interference are a good place to start.” -- Evelyn Hoon * LSE Review of Books *"As a family physician who treats patients, not disease states, I found this book both reinvigorating and challenging. ... The book is a worthwhile read for physicians who care for their patients, whether domestically or globally." -- Mark K. Huntington * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer xi Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1 Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures 1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23 2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42 3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65 Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts 4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91 5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112 6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133 Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power 7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161 8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187 9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210 Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed) 10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239 11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257 12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287 Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305 In Memoriam 327 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliography 331 Contributors 371 Index 373

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Book SynopsisThe radically humanistic essays inArc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book’s multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today’s world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, SalmaaTrade Review“This is a book about life and death and about the aftermath of death. That alone makes it relevant to our species and to others, but Arc of Interference is also a book about the possibility of something more and something wonderful: across the continents, people struggle to care for one another.” -- Paul Farmer, from the Foreword“In this rich collection, leading medical anthropologists demonstrate ethnography as care. Attending to intimate realities and to the productive power of narrative, they use anthropology for collective healing.” -- Helena Hansen, coauthor of * Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America *“Arc of Interference is essential reading for anyone who cares about our troubled times. Its ethnographic creations mend what is broken by asking us to listen, care, and act.” -- Angela Garcia, author of * The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *“A major undertaking of humanist anthropology, this volume insists on the necessity of medical anthropology for facing the great challenges of our time, from pandemics and structural violence to climate change and political oppression. Arc of Interference is a milestone in medical anthropology.” -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor of * Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda *“Biehl, Adams, and their contributors have . . . penned a classic in Arc of Interference. . . . In our current times of reckoning–both global and disciplinary–contributions like Arc of Interference are a good place to start.” -- Evelyn Hoon * LSE Review of Books *"As a family physician who treats patients, not disease states, I found this book both reinvigorating and challenging. ... The book is a worthwhile read for physicians who care for their patients, whether domestically or globally." -- Mark K. Huntington * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer xi Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1 Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures 1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23 2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42 3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65 Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts 4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91 5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112 6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133 Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power 7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161 8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187 9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210 Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed) 10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239 11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257 12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287 Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305 In Memoriam 327 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliography 331 Contributors 371 Index 373

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Book SynopsisTrade 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 *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 Guantánamo 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

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Book SynopsisNeoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. This book offers a tale about the forces driving decision making in health and development policy today, illustrating how the privatization of health care can have catastrophic outcomes for some of the world's most vulnerable populations.Trade Review"An accessible summary of the rise of neoliberalism following World War II and its impact on global health and development programs into the late 20th century and beyond... A valuable resource." -- Kristin E. Yarris American Journal of Human Biology "Blind Spot provides much greater clarity in our understanding of the specific agendas promoted by neoliberalism, including the distinct forces involved and their relation to health delivery programs." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Paul Farmer Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A World Transformed Part I. The Beginning of the Encounter: The Soviet World Meets Its Global Counterparts 2. Health in the Time of the USSR: A Window into the Communist Moral World 3. Seeking Help at the End of Empire: A Transnational Lifeline for Badakhshan Part II. Life at the End of Empire: The Crisis and the Response 4. The Health Crisis in Badakhshan: Sickness and Misery at the End of Empire 5. Minding the Gap? The Revolving Drug Fund Part III. Transplanting Ideology: Village Health Meets the Global Economy 6. Bretton Woods to Bamako: How Free-Market Orthodoxy Infiltrated the International Aid Movement 7. From Bamako to Badakhshan: Neoliberalism's Transplanting Mechanism Part IV. The Aftermath: Neoliberal Success, Global Health Failure 8. Privatizing Health Services: Reforming the Old World 9. Revealing the Blind Spot: Outcomes That Matter 10. Epilogue: Reframing the Moral Dimensions of Engagement Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to the field of global health. This title is suitable for schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, and also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.Trade Review"Reimagining Global Health will surely prove useful as an introductory textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in public health, human biology and anthropology, and various other disciplines." American Journal of Human Biology "This well-written and accessible introduction to problems of global health will shape the developing discipline's future and bring attention to the pressing need for global health equity." Medical Humanities "A must read for students and faculty in public health, medicine, and anthropology." CHOICE "Valuable." -- Raymond Downing Society of Teachers of Family Medicine "An excellent, well-structured introduction to thoughtful global health practices ... Reimagining Global Health provides a wealth of insights that would benefit seasoned professionals, scholars, and activists." -- Daniel Takarabe Kim Theoretical Medicine and BioethicsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Preface by Paul Farmer 1. Introduction: A Biosocial Approach Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, Matthew Basilico 2. Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique Bridget Hanna, Arthur Kleinman 3. Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies Jeremy Greene, Marguerite Thorp Basilico, Heidi Kim, Paul Farmer 4. Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics Matthew Basilico, Jonathan Weigel, Anjali Motgi, Jacob Bor, Salmaan Keshavjee 5. Redefining the Possible: The Global AIDS Response Luke Messac, Krishna Prabhu 6. Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda Peter Drobac, Matthew Basilico, Luke Messac, David Walton, Paul Farmer 7. Scaling Up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide Jim Yong Kim, Michael Porter, Joseph Rhatigan, Rebecca Weintraub, Matthew Basilico, Paul Farmer 8. The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease Burden Anne Becker, Anjali Motgi, Jonathan Weigel, Giuseppe Raviola, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman 9. Values and Global Health Arjun Suri, Jonathan Weigel, Luke Messac, Marguerite Thorp Basilico, Matthew Basilico, Bridget Hanna, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman 10. Taking Stock of Foreign Aid Paul Farmer, Jonathan Weigel, Matthew Basilico 11. Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century Jonathan Weigel, Matthew Basilico, Vanessa Kerry, Madeleine Ballard, Anne Becker, Gene Bukhman, Ophelia Dahl, Andy Ellner, Louise Ivers, David Jones, John Meara, Joia Mukherjee, Amy Sievers, Alyssa Yamamoto, Paul Farmer 12. A Movement for Global Health Equity? Matthew Basilico, Vanessa Kerry, Luke Messac, Arjun Suri, Jonathan Weigel, Marguerite Thorp Basilico, Joia Mukherjee, Paul Farmer Appendix: Declaration of Alma-Ata Notes Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisCollects the author's writings from 1988 to 2009 on anthropology, epidemiology, health care for the global poor, and international public health policy, providing an overview of his work. This work demonstrates how, over time, he has fundamentally changed the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice.Trade Review"A crucially important book for physicians." Jama "[Farmer] brings an energized yet pragmatic passion to an enduring problem in global health." Practical Matters "Highly engaging and intellectually satisfying." -- Mark A. Strand Perspectives In Science And Christian FaithTable of ContentsContents Foreword: He Stole My Necktie for the Poor Tracy Kidder Introduction: The Right to Claim Rights 1 Haun Saussy Part 1. Ethnography, History, Political Economy Introduction to Part 1 Paul Farmer 1. Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti (1988) 2. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti (1990) 3. The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Haiti (1990) 4. Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection among Poor Women in Haiti (1997) 5. From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations (2006) Part 2. Anthropology amid Epidemics Introduction to Part 2 Paul Farmer 6. Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" (1996, 1999) 7. Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis (1997) 8. Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti (1999) 9. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment (1999) 10. The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Twenty-First Century (2) 11. Social Medicine and the Challenge of Biosocial Research (2) 12. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World--To Treat or Not to Treat? (2001) 13. Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Strengthens Primary Health Care (2004) David A. Walton, Paul Farmer, Wesler Lambert, Fernet Leandre, Serena P. Koenig, and Joia Mukherjee 14. AIDS in 2006--Moving toward One World, One Hope? (2006) Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer Part 3. Structural Violence Introduction to Part 3 Paul Farmer 15. Women, Poverty, and AIDS (1996) 16. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era (1996, 2003) 17. An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2001, 2004) 18. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine (2006) Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee 19. Mother Courage and the Costs of War (2008) 20. "Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths (2008) Part 4. Human Rights and a Critique of Medical Ethics Introduction to Part 4 Paul Farmer 21. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift (1999, 2003) 22. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below (2004) Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos 23. Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights (2005) 24. Rich World, Poor World: Medical Ethics and Global Inequality (2006) 25. Making Human Rights Substantial (2008) Conclusion: An Interview (2009) Paul Farmer and Haun Saussy Acknowledgments Works Cited Editorial Note and Credits Index

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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

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