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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 43 quotes by Paul Farmer Part of a series on Medical and psychological anthropology Basic concepts Health Culture-bound syndrome Double bind Case studies Navajo medicine Related articles Nutritional anthropology Psychological anthropology Cognitive anthropology Transpersonal anthropology Ethnomedicine Clinical ethnography Critical medical anthropology Cross-cultural psychiatry Person-centered ethnography Society for Medical Anthropology National character studies... Read full biography of Paul Farmer → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming... → 0 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... → 0 For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that... → 0 So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is... → 0 The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in... → 0 The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. 0 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... → 0 We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored... → 0 I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. 0 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... → 0 The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. 0 I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the... → 0 The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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