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Medical Anthropologist

Paul Farmer is an American medical anthropologist born on October 26, 1959. He has had a profound impact in the field of global health, particularly in the research and policy of tropical diseases and public health. Farmer is known for his work in providing medical services and advocating for social justice in impoverished areas.

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“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”

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“I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.”

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Book:Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader

Source: Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader

“lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”

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“If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?”

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Book:Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.”

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“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.”

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“Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.”

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“But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.”

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“I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.”

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“It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.”

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“If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.”

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Author:Paul Farmer

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Born: October 26, 1959
Known for: Medical Anthropologist
Quotes: 72

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the PoorRelated source material

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