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

"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. H...

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Main Author: Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022 (Author)
Other Authors: Weigel, Jonathan, 1986- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Series:California series in public anthropology.
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Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Speeches.
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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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780520955431
0520955439
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.