![]() The book details PIH’s work during the crisis, but Farmer insists it was mainly intended as a “reparative exercise”-one inspired by patients who survived Ebola, and meant to elevate West African voices, experiences and histories.Īll of these things were lacking in West Africa when Farmer traveled there to fight Ebola, which made it near impossible to actually treat Ebola patients–as opposed to simply trying to isolate them before they spread the virus-and to keep hospitals functioning well enough to take care of patients who needed any other type of medical treatment. ![]() It’s a sweeping history of West Africa, Ebola and the precipitating factors that made the former a too hospitable host for the latter during the 2014-2016 outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. ![]() Paul’s latest book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History reads in part like a memoir, in part like a scholarly text. Paul, you never told us you could read and write!”ĭr. And though he is beloved in these areas, it is not because of his résumé–he cheerfully tells the story of a Haitian woman who, upon learning he’d written a book, exclaimed, “Dr. In many of the communities where PIH works, he is known simply as Dr. He brags about his students at Harvard like a proud father–which he is, to three kids. He often interrupts his own thoughts to make a joke. ![]() You wouldn’t necessarily know this simply by talking to Farmer. ![]()
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