Mountains Beyond Mountains：The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

作者: Tracy Kidder

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2004-08

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780812973013

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 335页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

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　　Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the authorof the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by theBaltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” Thispowerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make adifference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who isin love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cureit.

  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 aboat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnoseand cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools ofmodern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent bookshows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seeminsurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can becreated, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leaderin international health and a doctor who finds time to make housecalls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts throughconvention to get results.

  Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru,Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through hisdedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation ishumanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small publiccharity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of theGates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World HealthOrganization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At theheart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and onan understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyondmountains there are mountains”: as you solve one problem, anotherproblem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that onetoo.

  “Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gatheringrevelation,” says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, “[Farmer]wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerfulbook will change the way you see it.”

  From the Hardcover edition. 　　Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National BookAward, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literaryprizes. The author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, Old Friends, and Home Town, Kidder lives inMassachusetts and Maine.

　　From the Hardcover edition.
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　　Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the authorof the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by theBaltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” Thispowerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make adifference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who isin love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cureit.

  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 aboat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnoseand cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools ofmodern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent bookshows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seeminsurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can becreated, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leaderin international health and a doctor who finds time to make housecalls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts throughconvention to get results.

  Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru,Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through hisdedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation ishumanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small publiccharity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of theGates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World HealthOrganization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At theheart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and onan understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyondmountains there are mountains”: as you solve one problem, anotherproblem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that onetoo.

  “Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gatheringrevelation,” says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, “[Farmer]wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerfulbook will change the way you see it.”

  From the Hardcover edition.
作者简介:
　　Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National BookAward, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literaryprizes. The author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, Old Friends, and Home Town, Kidder lives inMassachusetts and Maine.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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