To repair the world : Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation

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Label

To repair the world : Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation

Title remainder

Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jonathan Weigel ; foreword by President Bill Clinton

Creator

• Farmer, Paul, 1959-

Contributor

• Weigel, Jonathan, 1986-

Subject

• Public health -- Citizen participation
• Public health -- Social aspects
• Public health --Addresses
• Public health administration
• Public welfare
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

Language

eng

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"--

Member of

• Speeches., Selections

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.1

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography