Dr. Paul Farmer Resources
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Paul Edward Farmer, Medical Anthropologist Faculty at Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Social Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Biography (photo) Wiping Out TB and AIDS (U.S. News & World Report) Paul Farmer (from Wikipedia) (includes photo, audio, and video) NOTE: Sources should be verified Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracey Kidder Photo from NPR

Selected Articles by Dr. Farmer

In academic journals:

• From "Marvelous Momentum" to Health Care for All: Success Is Possible With the Right Programs.
• Structural violence and clinical medicine.
• Global aids: new challenges for health and human rights. (Transcript).
• New malaise: bioethics and human rights in the global era.
• Global health equity.
• Partners: discernment and humanitarian efforts in settings of violence. (Partners In Health organization's experiences in providing aid).
• AIDS as a global emergency. (Editorials).
• Unjust embargo of aid for Haiti. (Viewpoint).
• Rethinking health and human rights: time for a paradigm shift.
• Can transnational research be ethical in the developing world? (Commentary).
• The Banality of Agency: Bridging Personal Narrative and Political Economy. (analyzes papers about holocaust survivors)
• This is the house that Jack built: non-integrated health policies in an integrated world. (HIV/AIDS)
• An Anthropology of Structural Violence.
• Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View From Below.
• 'Pandemic: Facing AIDS'. (Reviews the documentary television series directed by Rory Kennedy)
• Pathologies of Power: Rethinking Health and Human Rights.
• Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases.
• Women, poverty and aids: An introduction.

In magazines:

• Haiti's Wretched of the Earth.
• SARS and inequality. (Comment).
• AIDS heretic: Paul Farmer reveals how the President of South Africa broke the AIDS establishment's inequality taboo.
• Listening for prophetic voices in medicine. (inequality of health care for the poor)(Cover Story).
• Medicine and social justice. (liberation theology perspective).

Selected Articles About Dr. Farmer

• The Good Doctor: Paul Farmer set out twenty years ago to heal the world: He still thinks he can.
• Healing the World by Curing the Poor. (A CONVERSATION WITH: Paul Farmer)(Interview).
• Health Care for the Poorest as a Central Human Right. (Interview).
• Rural Haitians Are Vanguard In AIDS Battle. (Foreign Desk).
• Interview: Tracy Kidder discusses the work of Dr. Paul Farmer as described in his book, "Mountains Beyond Mountains". (Broadcast transcript-audio).
• Healing Humanity on His Own Terms. (Book Review).
• A Season in Hell. ('Mountains Beyond Mountains')(Book Review).

Internet Sites

• Video of Tracy Kidder and Dr. Paul Farmer (discussing Kidder's book, Mountains Beyond Mountains)
• Partners in Health (Paul Farmer is a founding director of this "international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.")
• The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer (NPR) (includes audio)
• Video of speech at Stanford U.
• An Incurable TB? (video from PBS)
• Additional audio and video referenced in Wikipedia article