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Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By Kidder, Tracy
- ISBN
- 978-0-375-99099-1 978-0-385-74318-1
- Publisher
- Delacorte
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on April 1, 2013
With an MD and PhD from Harvard and a teaching position at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Paul Farmer states that what he wants in life is to be a country doctor. What he is, though, is a doctor to countries: poor countries around the globe such as Haiti, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda, where the citizens have major health problems and little access to care. Here, French adapts Kidder's adult examination of Farmer (first published ten years ago), leaving the ethnographic...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Biographies
French adapts Kidder's adult examination (first published ten years ago) of "doctor to countries" Paul Farmer, leaving the ethnographic journal...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
