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Paul Farmer

Born

in North Adams, Massachusetts, The United States

October 26, 1959

Died

February 21, 2022

Website

http://www.pih.org

Genre

Development, Global Health

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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. ...more

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Paul Farmer’s books

Average rating: 4.17 · 13,764 ratings · 996 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen (Foreword) 4.27 avg rating — 4,573 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues 4.10 avg rating — 2,763 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haiti: After the Earthquake 3.84 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton 4.09 avg rating — 883 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame 4.21 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History 4.04 avg rating — 797 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer, Jonathan Kozol (Foreword by), Noam Chomsky (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez by Paul Farmer, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Michael Griffin (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (Volume 26) (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Paul Farmer (Editor), Arthur Kleinman (Editor), Jim Yong Kim (Editor) 4.37 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader by Paul Farmer, Haun Saussy (Editor), Tracy Kidder (Foreword) 4.34 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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