To repair the world [[electronic resource] ] : Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation / / edited by Jonathan Weigel ; with a foreword by President Bill Clinton
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| Autore: |
Farmer Paul <1959-2022.>
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| Titolo: |
To repair the world [[electronic resource] ] : Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation / / edited by Jonathan Weigel ; with a foreword by President Bill Clinton
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public health - Social aspects |
| Public welfare | |
| Public health administration | |
| Public health - Citizen participation | |
| Public health | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | collection of speeches |
| common assumptions | |
| faith | |
| famous social activist | |
| funny | |
| global health equity | |
| hardbitten analysis | |
| hope | |
| how does national healthcare work | |
| humorous | |
| nationalized healthcare | |
| passionate and influential voice | |
| political and social activism | |
| political awareness | |
| protestor | |
| russia | |
| single payer system | |
| social activism | |
| social justice | |
| solidarity | |
| speech anthology | |
| student | |
| teacher | |
| who gets sick | |
| Classificazione: | SOC002010 |
| Altri autori: |
WeigelJonathan <1986->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Reimagining equity -- pt. II. The future of medicine and the big picture -- pt. III. Health, human rights, and unnatural disasters -- pt. IV. Service, solidarity, social justice. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | To repair the world |
| ISBN: | 0-520-95543-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812264203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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