Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
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Author: Tracy KidderEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-31
ISBN: 0812973011
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Book Reviews of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Book Review: Reawaken the Passion for Healing
Summary: 5 Stars
This book doesn't really need another review -- clearly it was well loved and respected long before I discovered it.
More to the point is that I needed to acknowledge how deeply moved and inspired I was while home sick two days from work to allow my own passion for healing to be more deeply awakened and expressed in my little corner of the world, with a dream to one day share it ... who knows where.
Only rarely could someone maintain the incredible energy, travel, mental gymnastics, and extraverted lifestyle of Paul Farmer. But I believe most physicians and many other healers can recognize this call to our innermost core, that space where we first made a commitment to the sacrifices required to do our work with all of our heart, soul, body and mind engaged. After being buried in paperwork, politics, legislative regulation, and thousands of other forms of beauracratic and social hurdles standing in the way of daily living out the compassion we first envisioned . . . this book offers vastly more than a ray of hope . . . its a joyous solar flare.
I am humbled and inspired. Most importantly, I will never be the same after having the opportunity to almost feel, see, hear, smell and touch the textures of life in Haiti (and to a lesser extent in Lima, Peru and Russia) as if I was actually walking along side this remarkable man, a feat accomplished by the wonderful skills of the narrator -- Terry Kidder.
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Summary of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer-brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti-blasts through convention to get results.
Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.'s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.
"Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gathering revelation," says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, "[Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it."
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