Mountains beyond mountains
(2004, original release: 2003)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/FARMER,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/FARMER,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2004]
©2004, ©2003
[©2003]
DESCRIPTION

335 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0375506161 (hc. : alk. paper), 9780375506161, 9780812973013, 0812973011, 9780812973013
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Includes "A reader's guide."

Doktè Paul -- The tin roofs of Cange -- Médicos aventureros -- A light month for travel -- O for the P -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Reader's Guide

"At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard Professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer - brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti - blasts through convention to get results."--Jacket

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