Paul Farmer





Paul Farmer

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October 26, 1959 in North Adams, Massachusetts, The United States

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Paul Farmer is a U.S. anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University, and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In May 2009 he was named chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. His medical specialty is infectious diseases. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health, an international health and social justice organization.


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How we can save millions of lives
Washington Post
Ten million people — many of them young and most of them poor — will die around the world this year from diseases for which safe, effective and affordable treatments exist. In Haiti, these are known as "stupid deaths." What's more, inadequate health ...

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Pathologies of Power: Healt...
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Infections and Inequalities...
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti ...
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The Uses of Haiti
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Haiti: After the Earthquake
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Partner to the Poor: A Paul...
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Women, Poverty, and AIDS: S...
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Vichy political dilemma
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EC Tax Law
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France Reviews: Its Revolut...
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“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ”
Paul Farmer

“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
Paul Farmer

“WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches”
Paul Farmer, Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

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