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Mountains Beyond Mountains - Social Entrepreneur Paul Farmer

This guide offers materials to accompany the book: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by author Tracey Kidder.

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  The Book and Author
Mountains Beyond Mountains The publisher Random House offers an excerpt from the book, an interview with author Tracy Kidder, discussion questions, and a teacher's guide.
Exploring Mountains Beyond Mountains: A Guide to Making a Difference in the World This site has study notes for the book prepared by faculty at the University of Washington. The notes cover topics such as identity, culture, citizenship, medical ethics, globalization, politics, economics, HIV issues, and service/activism.
Meanings Beyond Mountains: A Glossary of Terms from the Work of Paul Farmer "This glossary is the work of individual University of Washington faculty and graduate students. It is designed to help student readers understand key terms in Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (New York: Random House 2003), but it also introduces and explains terminology that Paul Farmer uses himself in his own writing."
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer NPR National Public Radio provides a transcript of an interview with Tracy Kidder broadcast on All Things Considered, October 20, 2003. You can also listen to the interview online or listen to Tracy Kidder read an excerpt from the book.
  Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and their Organizations
Partners in Health "Partners In Health (PIH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with a presence in Latin America, the Caribbean, Russia, and the United States. We coordinate innovative programs to combat AIDS and women's health problems in rural Haiti and urban Massachusetts, groundbreaking tuberculosis treatment projects in the prisons of Siberia and the shantytowns of Lima, and health policy initiatives on a global scale." In addition to information on PIH efforts, the site offers essays on public health, human rights, Haitian, and Latin American issues.
Fresh Air Interview of Dr. Paul Farmer Listen to Terry Gross interviewing medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer on September 25, 2003.
If We Fail To Act by Paul Farmer, M.D. Article in Notre Dame magazine.
Pathologies of Power At the University of California Press site for Farmer's public anthropology book, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, you can read the first chapter: "On Suffering and Structural Violence" or read an interview with Paul Farmer.
Social Innovation Conversations: Paul Farmer "Host Tim Zak talks to Farmer about the challenges and rewards of providing healthcare to the poorest of the poor, and the evolving, innovative models for getting drugs to those who need them most." Interviewed April 21, 2006.
Half-hour program can be played from site or dowloaded as an MP3.
Social Medicine & Health Inequalities Brigham and Women's Hospital This is the site for the Division of Social Medicine & Health Inequalities (DSMHI) mentioned in the book. The site has information on global health inititiatives, research, and links to articles, interviews, and lectures by Kim, Farmer, and other DSMHI faculty.
Wiping out TB and AIDS This article in the 10/31/05 issue of U.S. News and World Report offers an update on PIH's work in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere.
Global Health and Justice View an online video of Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Jonathan Moreno talking about "the ethics of access to care and protection from secret experiments" at a University of Washington symposium on December 9, 2003.
Video runtime is 1 hour 28 minutes. Dr. Farmer's talk starts about 38 minutes into the symposium.
  Haiti
Country Profile: Haiti A up-to-date (May 2006) 23 page profile of Haiti by researchers at the Library of Congress.
Document in PDF.
Country Study: Haiti This site gives you full text chapters from a 1989 book by the U.S. government which is an "attempt to treat in a compact and objective manner the dominant contemporary social, political, economic, and military aspects of ... Haiti" including chapters on the social structure, health, history, and economy.
  Global Health Issues
Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge This global health media education project includes a PBS television series, an interactive global health atlas, information on diseases, profiles of global health champions (Farmer and others), first person accounts of health care workers around the globe, teachers guides, etc. Some short video clips available from the site.
Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine Paul E. Farmer*, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, Salmaan Keshavjee An October 2006 article published in the Public Library of Science: Medicine.
The Age of Aids Frontline This two part PBS series looks at the medical & political history of AIDS and examines current global AIDS challenges. You can watch the entire series on the site. Additional resources include articles, links, maps, a timeline, stories of people with AIDS, and interviews with activists, policymakers, public health officials, and researchers.
  Pictures
A Healer in Haiti Collection of photos of Farmer and his clinic from the St. Petersburg Times.
Mark Hare's Photo Album Includes pictures of Port au Prince and National Highway 3.
Daouts in front of their home Photo of Haitian family living not far from Highway 3 and Cange.
Photos of Zanmi Lasante clinic (Clinique Bon Sauveur) Includes photo of clinic building, women waiting for treatment, clinic workers, children.
Haiti Photo Blog Includes photographs of the Peligre Dam (Centre II collection).
DMSHI Photo Gallery Pictures from health projects in Boston, Haiti, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda.

Maintainer of this guide: Kate Pittsley, Asst. Professor, Librarian       last updated: June 4, 2009

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