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Paul Farmer, neighborhoods & weight, Tarantino, Ted Kennedy

RT @PIH_org: How Mountains Beyond Mountains and Paul Farmer led Tracy Kidder to write Strength in What Remains: http://bit.ly/obPUl # Absolutely wonderful book. RT @PIH_org: New edition of Mountains Beyond Mountains published today! w/ updated epilogue http://bit.ly/ob8V9 # RT @mtrobinson: RT @HopkinsCHDS: Unsafe urban neighborhoods linked to teen weight http://bit.ly/KAZXQ #sociotweet # Most takes on [...]

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2009 08 26 Dave general
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Dr. Paul Farmer and public sociology

My last post was about Tracy Kidder’s fantastic book on Dr. Paul Farmer. If you didn’t follow the links or watch the 60 Minutes clip, the short version of the story is this: Farmer is a doctor and medical anthropologist (M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard) who has been working in a severely impoverished area of [...]

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2008 05 29 Dave sociology Comments (3)

Dr. Paul Farmer

I just finished reading Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World. I cannot recommend this book highly enough — it’s a must-read. Kidder is a former Pulitzer Prize winner, and Farmer makes for a fascinating, inspiring, and moving story. I was vaguely familiar with Farmer and [...]

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2008 05 26 Dave sociology Comments (2)