A portrait of infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Farmer follows the efforts of this unconventional Harvard physician to understand the world's great health, economic, and social problems and to bring healing to humankind.
Dr. Paul Farmer of Massachusetts began working in Haiti in 1982, providing health care for peasants who can't afford doctors to treat the diseases that are rampant there, including TB. In 1993 Farmer was given a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," which he has used to further his work in Haiti. Tracy Kidder followed Farmer on his rounds and on his fundraising travels around the world, and he tells Farmer's story with the same zeal he brought to his Pulitzer Prize-winning THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
- Genre: Medical, Current Affairs, Biography + Autobiography
- Subgenre: General, Health Care Delivery, Medical, Poverty
- Publisher: Random House, Inc.
- Pages: 332
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: August 25, 2009
- Date Published: August 25, 2009
- Author: Tracy Kidder