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Haiti After the Earthquake

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By Paul Farmer

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On Sale
Jul 10, 2012
Page Count
480 pages
Publisher
PublicAffairs
ISBN-13
9781610392075

“Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider’s view of the relief effort.” — Financial Times

“The book’s greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book’s more analytical sections the author’s diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp.” — Economist

“A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our finest warriors for social justice.” — Adam Hochschild

“His honest assessment of what the people trying to help Haiti did well — and where they failed — is important for anyone who cares about the country or international aid in general.” — Miami Herald

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  • President Bill Clinton
    “A gripping recollection of the quake’s ruin, chaos, and despair, and the story of remarkable persistence, hope, and love in the aftermath.  Once you’ve seen Haiti through Paul Farmer’s eyes, you’ll never see Haitians, or any of the world’s poorest people, quite the same way again.”

    Adam Hochschild
    “Profoundly moving....An urgent dispatch from the front by one of our finest warriors for social justice.  With eloquence and wisdom, Paul Farmer shows how we cannot fully comprehend one of the great natural disasters of history without understanding the man-made suffering that Americans and others have inflicted on Haiti.”

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Paul Farmer

About the Author

Dr. Paul Farmer, physician and anthropologist, is chief strategist and co-founder of Partners In Health, an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He is Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has also served as U.N. Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti.

Dr. Farmer is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association’s Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and, with his PIH colleagues, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent books are In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez; Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction,and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation.

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