Books by Paul Farmer and Complete Book Reviews
Paul Farmer, read by various narrators. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 14 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-424-8
A physician and former United Nations deputy special envoy, Paul Farmer shares insights and experiences from his humanitarian work following the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, while offering supplemental essays from a host of key...
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Paul Farmer, edited by Jonathan Weigel, foreword by Bill Clinton. Univ. of California, $26.95 (240 p) ISBN 978-0-520-27597-3
Farmer, Harvard professor and founder of Partners in Health, offers an anthology of 19 speeches on global health initiatives delivered between 2001 and 2012. Since his med school days in the 1980s, Farmer has been committed to building a viable...
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Paul Farmer, Author, Farmer, Author, Jonathan Kozol, Foreword by Common Courage Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56751-034-8
In this impassioned, sometimes unwieldly, synthesis of history and report, Harvard-based Farmer, who alternates research with medical practice in rural Haiti, offers an indictment of American policy. He traces Haiti's long standing injustice from...
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Edited by Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block. Orbis, $24 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-62698-050-1
Farmer, a co-founder of the international nonprofit health care provider Partners in Health, may be one of the world’s best-known physicians. Gutiérrez, Peruvian priest, theologian, and author, is not a household name though well-known in...
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Paul Farmer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (672p) ISBN 978-0-374-23432-4
Medical anthropologist Farmer (coauthor, Reimagining Global Health), cofounder of the international health-care organization Partners in Health, delivers an incisive and deeply informed account of the Ebola outbreak (“the largest in recorded history”
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