Mountains Beyond Mountains

书名：Mountains Beyond MountainsTheQuestofDr.PaulFarmer,aManWhoWouldCuretheWorld
作者：TracyKidder
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ISBN：9780812973013
出版社：RandomHouseTradePaperbacks
出版时间：2004-8
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：322
豆瓣评分： 8.6

书籍简介：

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts through convention to get results. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" – a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”: as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. “ Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gathering revelation,” says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, “[Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.” From the Hardcover edition.

作者简介：

Tracy Kidder is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data General's Eclipse/MV minicomputer. The book typifies his distinctive style of research. He began following the project at its inception and, in addition to interviews, spent considerable time observing the engineers at work and outside of it. Using this perspective he was able to produce a more textured portrait of the development process than a purely retrospective study might.

Kidder followed up with House, in which he chronicles the design and construction of the award-winning Souweine House in Amherst, Massachusetts. House reads like a novel, but it is based on many hours of research with the architect, builders, clients, in-laws, and other interested parties.

In 2003, Kidder also published Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World after a chance encounter with Paul Farmer. The book was held to wide critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. The actor Edward Norton has claimed it was one of the books which has had a profound influence on him.

书友短评：

@ 万泉河名媛 [有声书] 前段时间Paul Farmer去世，我才听说这个名字；又看到有友邻安利这本他的传记，就听了起来。Farmer真的是集medicine + public health + philanthropy一身的大家！从一心扑进去的海地医疗卫生，到后来全球级别的公共卫生课题（AIDS和TB），他都是身体力行地去实践去向世界证明资源技术投入的价值和可行性。他的公共卫生课题，结合了医疗和人类学，让人也会想去读他自己的著作。也会让人反观自己：自己能给周围多大范围内的人群带来怎样的积极影响；主要觉得自己除了自己本身和周围的亲友，给予得太少，也有一次觉得个人主义的盛行让人眼里真的只有自己… 书的可读性不错，因为Farmer涉猎范围很广，不仅是具体的医疗个案还是大的政策推动，也有八卦分享，推荐！ @ 浊克斯 2020疫情期间连着传染病那本读完，今天看到讣告太震惊了，圣徒般的一位医学人类学家

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