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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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“Laws are not science; they are normative ideology and are thus tightly tied to power. Biomedicine and public health, though also vulnerable to being deformed by ideology, serve different imperatives, ask different questions. They do not ask whether an event or a process violates an existing rule; they ask whether that event or process has ill effects on a patient or a population.”

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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

“...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.”

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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

“I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.”

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“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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“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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“The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.”

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

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