Mountains beyond mountains

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At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity"—a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners in Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.

subjects: Poor,  Physicians,  Human rights,  Medical Missionaries,  Right to health care,  Biography & Autobiography,  Nonfiction,  Medical care,  Biography,  Missionaries, Medical,  Medical - Physicians,  Biography/Autobiography,  Biography / Autobiography,  Humanitarians,  Biography & Autobiography / General,  Reading Group Guide,  General,  Farmer, Paul, 1959-,  Right to health,  Missionaries,  Medical missions,  Missions and Missionaries,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Poverty,  Social conditions,  Practice Guideline,  Physicians, biography,  Missionaries, biography,  Poor, medical care,  Religious Missions,  Recht op gezondheidszorg,  Ontwikkelingslanden,  HIV-Infektion,  Humanit<U+fffd>are Hilfe,  Gesundheitsf<U+fffd>orderung,  Medical care, juvenile literature,  Public health,  Missionaries, juvenile literature,  Human rights, juvenile literature,  Physicians, juvenile literature,  Juvenile literature,  Biographies,  Pauvres,  Médecins,  Soins médicaux,  Médecins missionnaires,  Farmer, paul,  Farmer, paul , 1959-,  Farmer, paul edward, $d 1959-,  Physicians--biography,  Missionaries, medical--biography,  Poor--medical care,  R154.f36 k53 2004,  Wz 100 f233k 2004

People: Paul Farmer (1959-),  Paul Farmer

Places: United States,  Haiti,  États-Unis,  Haïti