To repair the world : Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation / edited by Jonathan Weigel ; foreword by President Bill Clinton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022.

Contributor:

Weigel, Jonathan, 1986-

Standardized Title:

Speeches. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Social aspects.

Public health.

Public welfare.

Public health administration.

Public health--Citizen participation.

Public health--Addresses.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 266 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Here are highlights from Paul Farmers' speeches to a variety of audiences, from Princeton to Harvard to Notre Dame to Berkeley. Paul is a rock star of the academy who has a large following among many groups: students, doctors, general readers, activists, public health folks, professors. He is the pied piper of everyone who wants to change the world. Not only is he cofounder of Partners In Health,US Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti,head of social medicine at Harvard, but he's also a charming, humorous, engaging public speaker whose charisma is legend. In this book, conceived of as a graduation gift for students write large, Farmer addresses the challenges facing young people with a call for them to change the world and become activists"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263).

ISBN:

9780520275973

0520275977

OCLC:

818734568