By Paul Farmer
A must-read for graduates, scholars, and everybody looking to aid bend the arc of historical past towards justice, To fix the World:
demanding situations readers to counter disasters of mind's eye that preserve billions of individuals with out entry to well-being care, secure consuming water, respectable colleges, and different uncomplicated human rights;
Champions the ability of partnership opposed to worldwide poverty, weather swap, and different urgent difficulties today;
Overturns universal assumptions approximately healthiness disparities worldwide by means of contemplating the large-scale social forces that make sure who will get ill and who has entry to future health care;
Discusses how desire, team spirit, religion, and hardbitten research have lively Farmer’s provider to the bad in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and elsewhere;
Leaves the reader with an uplifting imaginative and prescient: that with creativity, ardour, teamwork, and backbone, the following generations could make the realm a more secure and extra humane place.
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For all of you who take pride in BC’s cosmopolitan culture and secular success, I warn you further that I’m going to frame my remarks today around a couple of concepts I learned growing up Cath20 Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis / 21 olic: epiphany, metanoia, and praxis. But don’t worry—I won’t talk about theology and still less about philosophy or any particular faith tradition. I’ll confess right here that for years I thought “epiphany” was either a hot young starlet or a Latin American vacation day; I was pretty sure that “metanoia” was a heavymetal band whose members trashed hotel rooms and ended up in rehab; and, for the longest time, I thought a “praxis” was a disease-transmitting insect indigenous to the part of Amazonia shared by Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela.
The irony, now, is the best that medicine has to offer keeps getting better—thanks in large part to the health sciences also represented here today. The big leap forward that physics made a century ago is now happening in medicine. That’s good news. The bad news is that unless we make equity our watchword, we become party to a process that promises to reserve its finest care 14 / Reimagining Equity for those who need it least, leaving billions of sick people without decent medical care. All four points were hidden in there.
It is incontrovertible that these perceptions apply with dismaying regularity to black people and other minorities in the United States. And it is undeniable that lifestyle, socioeconomic status, and personal beliefs are powerful influences on health. . 10 Social injustice in medical practice. Science has revolutionized medicine but there was no revolution and no plan for ensuring equal access. Excellence without equity is what you now inherit. It’s the chief human rights problem of twenty-first-century medicine, and only when we’re all under general anesthesia of the soul will we be able to ignore it as the century marches on.