Haiti After the Earthquake

by Farmer, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781610390989
• ISBN10: 1610390989
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-10
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

Paul Farmer, the renowned Harvard physician and co-founder of Partners In Health, bears witness to Haiti's devastating earthquake and the ensuing relief and rebuilding efforts

Author Biography

Paul Farmer is Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and cofounder of Partners In Health. He also serves as UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti under Special Envoy Bill Clinton. Among his numerous awards and honors is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius award."

Table of Contents

Nèg Mawon	p. ix
Writing About Suffering	p. 1
The Catastrophe	p. 6
Praxis and Policy: The Years before the Quake	p. 22
January 12 and the Aftermath	p. 54
A History of the Present Illness	p. 121
Into the Camps	p. 140
From Relief to Reconstruction (Building Back Better?)	p. 149
Reconstruction in the Time of Cholera	p. 188
Looking Forward While Looking Back: Lessons from Rwanda	p. 236
Epilogue: January 12, 2011	p. 236
Afterword: March 31, 2012	p. 246
Other Voices
Art, by Catherine Bertrand Farmer	p. 260
Women
Lòt Bò Dlo: The Other Side of the Water	p. 261
Sim Pa Rele (If I Don't Shout), by Michèle Montas-Dominique	p. 271
Goudou Goudou	p. 285
Mothers and Daughters of Haiti	p. 295
Doctors
Humanitarian Aid, Impartiality, and Dirty Boots	p. 308
Lopital Jeneral Struggles to Survive	p. 319
Doctors in Tents	p. 328
Those Who Survived	p. 332
Humanitarians
First We Need Taxis	p. 342
The Official	p. 356
Building Back Better	p. 363
Notes	p. 373
Acronyms and Initiahsms	p. 409
Contributors	p. 411
Acknowledgments	p. 415
Index	p. 419
Photo insert between pages	p. 216-217
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