To Repair the World

Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-32115-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer’s vision in a single, accessible volume.

A must-read for graduates, students, and everyone seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, To Repair the World: - challenges readers to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to health care, safe drinking water, decent schools, and other basic human rights
- champions the power of partnership against global poverty, climate change, and other pressing problems today
- overturns common assumptions about health disparities around the globe by considering the large-scale social forces that determine who gets sick and who has access to health care
- discusses how hope, solidarity, faith, and hardbitten analysis have animated Farmer’s service to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and elsewhere
- leaves the reader with an uplifting vision: that with creativity, passion, teamwork, and determination, the next generations can make the world a safer and more humane place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farmer, Paul

Weigel, Jonathan L.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clinton, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by President Bill Clinton

Introduction by Jonathan Weigel



Part I: Reimagining Equity



General Anesthesia for the (Young Doctor’s) Soul?

Brown Medical School, Commencement 2001



Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis: Turning Road Angst into Hope—and Action

Boston College, Commencement 2005



Three Stories, Three Paradigms, and a Critique of Social Entrepreneurship

Skoll World Forum, Oxford University 2008



The Story of the Inhaler

College of the Holy Cross, Commencement 2012



Countering Failures of Imagination

Northwestern University, Commencement 2012



Part II: The Future of Medicine and the Big Picture



If You Take the Red Pill: Reflections on the Future of Medicine

Harvard Medical School, Class Day 2003



Medicine as a Vocation

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2004



Haiti After the Earthquake

Harvard Medical School, Talks@Twelve Speaker Series 2010



The Tetanus Speech

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2010



Part III: Health, Human Rights, and Unnatural Disasters



Global Health Equity and the Missing Weapons of Mass Salvation

Harvard School of Public Health, Commencement 2004



Making Public Health Matter

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Commencement 2006



Unnatural Disasters and the Right to Health Care

Tulane School of Medicine, Commencement 2008



Exploring the Adjacent Possible

Georgetown University, Commencement 2011



Part IV: Service, Solidarity, Social Justice



Who Stands Fast?

Union Theological Seminary, Union Medal Acceptance Speech 2006



Courage and Compassion in the Time of Guantánamo

Emory University, Commencement 2007



Spirituality and Justice

All Saints Parish (Brookline, MA), Spirituality and Justice Award Acceptance Speech 2008



Making Hope and History Rhyme

Princeton University, Commencement 2008



The Drum Major Instinct

Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration 2009



Accompaniment as Policy

Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Commencement 2011



Notes

Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Farmer is cofounder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His most recent book is Reimagining Global Health. Other titles include To Repair the World, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor; Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues; and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, all by UC Press.