Paul Farmer
American physician and medical anthropologist, co-founder of Partners In Health, known for his work on global health, infectious diseases, and social justice.
Books
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1. Fevers, Feuds, And Diamonds
Ebola and the Ravages of History
A tightly argued set of essays and field reports that examines how outbreaks such as Ebola are rooted less in biology than in history, politics, and economic inequality—showing how colonial legacies, war, resource exploitation, and failing health systems create the conditions for devastating epidemics. Drawing on clinical experience, epidemiology, and social analysis, it reframes infectious disease as a product of structural violence and calls for ethically grounded, systemic change in global public health practice.
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2. To Repair The World
Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
A collection of candid essays and speeches that draws on clinical and field experience in Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere to argue that health care is a human right, expose how poverty and structural violence create avoidable suffering, and urge a new generation to pursue pragmatic solidarity through community-based care, policy change, and systems-level commitments to equity and social justice.
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