Common Reading Experience

Online Resources
Biographies (Paul Farmer & Tracy Kidder)
Book Reviews
Haiti

About Paul Farmer, Tracy Kidder and Mountains Beyond Mountains

Biography

Biography of Paul Farmer in Social Medicine and Health Inequalities.
21 Feb. 2006 Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 19 Jan. 2007
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/aboutfarmer.aspx

Paul Farmer. Department of Social Medicine. Harvard Medical School
19 Jan. 2007 http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/people/
faculty/PaulFarmer.html

Brief biography and timeline with acceptance speech in Heinz Awards. 7 Dec 2007
http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=73

Book Reviews

Rylko-Bauer, B., et. al., Managed Care or Managed Inequality? A Call for Critiques of Market-Based Medicine. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly v. 16 no. 4 (December 2002) p. 476-502
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=aph&AN=18391505&site=ehost-live

Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer.Tepe, Melissa1Einstein Journal of Biology &
Medicine; 2005, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p95-96, 2p
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b17
90ec41ff49ba614c330331f62da53eb825d713dacd2489
f875680814a75686b9610&fmt=H

Sheehan, M. N., reviewer Mountains beyond mountains (Book Review). America v. 189 no. 15 (November 10 2003) p. 25-6

Paul Farmer & Tracey Kidder: Articles and Interviews

The Quest for Dr. Paul Farmer. NPR 20 Oct. 2003 All Things Considered. 19 Jan 2007 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1472188

A Conversation with Tracy Kidder, Author of Mountains Beyond Mountains. BookBrowse. 1997-2007. 29 Jan 2007
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_
interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=940

Farmer, Paul. “Haitian Refugees Sovereignty and Globalization.”
America: The National Catholic Weekly 189.7 (2003)
http://www.americamagazine.org/gettext.
cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=3159&issueID=451

The Uses and Abuses of Haiti: Helen Scott Interviews Paul Farmer
International Socialists Review, April 2003
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Caribbean/Uses_Abuses_Haiti.html

Farmer, Paul. “Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases”
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2.4 (1996)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol2no4/farmer.htm

Interview with Dr. Paul Farmer. Kaiser network.org. Kaiser Family Foundation.
19 Jan. 2007 http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/
hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1943

Haiti

Library of Congress Country Studies: Haiti
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/httoc.html

U.S. Department of State Background Note: Haiti
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm

Library of Congress Portals to the World
Selected Internet Sites: Haiti
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/haiti/haiti.html

Haiti Archive - Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. Yahoo News.
http://hotzone.yahoo.com/haiti