Paul Farmer is a leading figure in medical anthropology and the founding director of Partners In Health. His work delves deeply into the social and economic inequalities that shape global health outcomes, particularly in impoverished communities. Farmer examines how diseases are often rooted in historical and structural injustices and how these issues can be addressed through social intervention and global solidarity. His writing, informed by extensive fieldwork, reveals the complex interplay of poverty, disease, and politics.
Set against the backdrop of the 1970s, the narrative explores the coming-of-age journey of a young protagonist navigating the complexities of adolescence. Themes of nostalgia, cultural shifts, and personal identity are woven throughout the story, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of growing up during a transformative era. The characters are richly developed, each embodying the spirit of the times while facing their own individual struggles. The book captures the essence of a generation, making it a poignant reflection on youth and self-discovery.
Johnny, a small boy who lived in a tiny village a long time ago, had always sought adventure and excitement. One day Johnny was told by one of the village elders that inside of Pigglepatch Wood was hidden a great treasure brimming with gold and jewels. There was a problem, however... Everyone was scared of the woods as it was said that there were hideous, scary creatures waiting inside for anyone entering the woods! In fact, no one had ever returned from the woods... Johnny decided to make a sword and hatch a plan. The villagers waved goodbye as Johnny made off towards Pigglepatch Wood - what would he find, and would he return?
Harry Jones, an American Special Forces veteran, and Hakim al-Boulos, a Yemeni
freedom fighter, are joined together to execute missions into Saudi Arabia to
dissuade the Saudis from bombing civilian areas in Yemen. Harry must help
Hakim manage his team as they are buffeted by fickle winds blowing in
Washington DC. Winds that disrupt the original reason the NSA supported the
interdiction mission utilizing Hakim's group. The vast empty spaces in both
Yemen and Saudi Arabia are the background for action, while the urban areas of
Chicago, Houston and Washington DC, along with forested New England, represent
the perceived superiority of America. The novel is based on US and Saudi
Arabian involvement in Yemen's civil war, which has killed thousands of
people. The story isn't ideological in presentation but is strongly character
driven, as people are reacting to situations beyond their control.
Transported for a crime he did not commit, Jack Swan finds himself beaten, tormented and hunted until news of his mother's imminent death spurs him into action.Jack Swan and his family came to know a world of abject poverty, dirt, disease, degradation, and death. Yet against all the odds, Swan finds his soul mate in the shape of Annie Nolan, only to suffer the loss of her to the vicious nature of a man called Raynsford, who with his associates runs their town as if it were theirs to rule.From his trial at the Old Bailey, he is forced into a brutal journey on a prison ship to Tennessee, where he is captured and adopted by the Cherokee Indians, who become like family. Two of his Cherokee brothers return with him to London to fight for his mother and achieve justice.As he learns more about his family's complicated history, Swan has to piece together the clues, which are all there for him to decipher.
In 2014, a devastating virus spread through West Africa, affecting Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea and prompting fear and panic around the world. The Ebola crisis resulted in loss of life and economic disruption on a vast scale. Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned physician and anthropologist, experienced this outbreak firsthand, In Fever, Feuds, and Diamonds, Farmer offers the first substantive, on-the-ground account of this fast-moving medical catastrophe. He recounts the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing how racism and colonialism have morphed into present-day threats to public health. Today as the world faces epidemiological challenges on an even larger scale, Farmer insists that we cannot ignore the consequences of 2014
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492. Deploying a range of rhetorical tools and drawing on his clinical work in a variety of epidemics, including Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leishmania in the Sudan, HIV/TB in southern Africa, diphtheria in Bangladesh, and SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, Richardson concludes that the biggest epidemic we currently face is an epidemic of illusions—one that is propagated by the coloniality of knowledge production.
Accounts for the persistence among historians of irreconcilable conflict over the significance of the French Revolution, in spite of a great factual knowledge of the event.
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.
