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Paul Farmer

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  345
Citations -  29245

Paul Farmer is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 343 publications receiving 26112 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Farmer include Case Western Reserve University & University of Antioquia.

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Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development

TL;DR: The need for surgical services in low- and middleincome countries will continue to rise substantially from now until 2030, with a large projected increase in the incidence of cancer, road traffic injuries, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in LMICs.
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

TL;DR: Pathologies of Power as discussed by the authors uses harrowing stories of life and death in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.
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An Anthropology of Structural Violence1

TL;DR: A syncretic and properly biosocial anthropology of these and other plagues moves us beyond noting their strong association with poverty and social inequalities to an understanding of how such inequalities are embodied as differential risk for infection and, among those already infected,....
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Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues

Paul Farmer
TL;DR: Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, Farmer points out that most current explanatory strategies, from 'cost-effectiveness' to patient 'noncompliance,' inevitably lead to blaming the victims.
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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

TL;DR: The impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda is described and the social structures that put people in harm's way are described.