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Paul Farmer


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in North Adams, Massachusetts, The United States
October 26, 1959

Died
February 21, 2022

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Paul Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. He was Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health. Among his books are Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (1999), The Uses of Haiti (1994), and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (1992). Farmer was the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and the Margaret Mead Award for his contributions to public anthropology.

Farmer was born in the U.S.A. in 1959. He married Didi Bertrand Farmer in 1996 and they had three children. He died in Rwanda in 2022, at the age of 62.
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Pathologies of Power: Healt...

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Infections and Inequalities...

4.10 avg rating — 2,860 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions
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Haiti: After the Earthquake

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To Repair the World: Paul F...

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The Uses of Haiti

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Partner to the Poor: A Paul...

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Women, Poverty, and AIDS: S...

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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
Paul Farmer

“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
Paul Farmer

“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ”
Paul Farmer

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