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Community is for suckers

[Here are thoughts that have been brewing and were finally pushed to the fore by a day-long department retreat.] As I have written before, I love my job. Comparing my time in the corporate sector with my career so far in academia is like comparing the San Antonio Spurs to Little Sisters of the Poor. [...]

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2008 08 20 Dave sociology Comments (8)

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)