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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by J. Tracy Kidder...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What To Read This Summer | 6/18/2010 | See Source »

This is not a new book. I suggest it now because it is about the work of Paul Farmer and colleagues who worked with him to found Partners in Health, an organization that has grown to have an important impact on several areas of the world. What caused me to return to this book (after first reading it a few years ago) was the earthquake in Haiti. Reading about the extraordinary challenges that Farmer and his team faced in delivering health care and building community-based programs gave considerable insight to the problems that continue to complicate the recovery...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What To Read This Summer | 6/18/2010 | See Source »

...Paul E. Farmer - Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What To Read This Summer | 6/18/2010 | See Source »

...four years working at The Crimson, I have personally read and edited bushels of these parting shots. I say “bushels” because, like a farmer, I annually anticipate Commencement Week as a harvest of sorts. The crop of parting shots is fairly predictable, occasionally yielding some blue ribbon corn and always yielding a surplus of diseased squash. Someone will tell you the charming story of how they learned to love failure. Someone else will try to convert you to the Church of Teach for America. Everyone will lament the hours they spent in Lamont...

Author: By James M. Wilsterman | Title: And Sow The Seeds of Tyranny | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Growing up next door to Harvard, he fondly remembers going to the fields surrounding Harvard Stadium to ride on a tractor with a University groundskeeper affectionately known as “Farmer...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Tale of Two Worlds | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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