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Paul Farmer


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

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Development, Global Health


Paul Farmer is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health. Among his books are Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (1999), The Uses of Haiti (1994), and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (1992). Farmer is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and the Margaret Mead Award for his contributions to public anthropology. He recently held the Blaise Pascal International Chair at the College de France.

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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
― Paul Farmer
tags: humanity, wrong-with-the-world
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“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
― Paul Farmer
tags: medicine, poverty, rights, science
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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
tags: capitalism, medicine, poverty, society, wealth
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