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Review of New Acquisition by Darryl Stephens
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (New York: Random House, 2003).
Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, provides an inspiring account of the medical mission work of Catholic layman Paul Farmer, a Harvard epidemiologist and founder of Partners in Health, who made health in Haiti his life's work. Farmer's work fighting TB, AIDS, and other diseases becomes a quest not only for medical intervention but also for improvement of the living and working conditions of the poorest of the poor in the Western Hemisphere. Having traveled to Haiti twice on mission trips myself, I found the book compelling, accurate, and hopeful. While Kidder's journalistic documentary is not heavily theological, he does provide a rich entree into a theological discussion of mission and health care--especially in terms of the "preferential option for the poor" and treating the life of every person (or patient) as intrinsically valuable, challenging our all-too-common utilitarian calculus for moral decision-making.
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Call number: R154 .F36 K53 2003
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