Mountains Beyond Mountains: One Doctor's Quest To Heal The World

Author: Tracy Kidder

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  • : December 2010
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  • : March 2011
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Description

Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges widely-held preconceptions about poverty and healthcare. As a medical student, Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine - so readily available in the developed world - to those who need them most. Beginning in Haiti, he tackles the conditions that contribute to so many unnecessary deaths with his trademark combination of world-class expertise, unlimited compassion, and the unstinting dedication of friends and colleagues. Tracy Kidder's magnificent and moving account shows how, from achieving this modest dream, one person can make a difference in solving global problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems and medicine.

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One man's fight to save lives in Haiti and everywhere

Awards

Commended for BMA Medical Book of the Year Award 2011.

Reviews

'Inspiring, disturbing, daring and completely absorbing' - New York Times Book Review 'A masterpiece that will leave you questioning your own life and political views. It's the perfect testament to a man who continues to reshape medicine and who has become, undoubtedly, an uncommon saviour to a country that desperately needed one' - USA Today 'A true-to-life fairytale... Its stark sense of reality comes as much from the grit between the pages as from the pure gold those pages spin' - Boston Sunday Globe 'It'll fill you equally with wonder and hope' - People

Author description

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes, and is the author of eight books.