"Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. It is hard to imagine a more timely or important book." --Bill and Melinda Gates[The] history is as powerfully conveyed as it is tragic . . . Illuminating . . . Invaluable. --Steven Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it? Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand--Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders. In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. In vibrant prose, Farmer tells the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing why the medical response was slow and insufficient. Rebutting misleading claims about the origins of Ebola and why it spread so rapidly, he traces West Africa's chronic health failures back to centuries of exploitation and injustice. Under formal colonial rule, disease containment was a priority but care was not - and the region's health care woes worsened, with devastating consequences that Farmer traces up to the present. This thorough and hopeful narrative is a definitive work of reportage, history, and advocacy, and a crucial intervention in public-health discussions around the world. [The] history is as powerfully conveyed as it is tragic. Farmer takes the reader through many fascinating episodes . . . By the time the chronology returns to the events covered in the opening chapters of the book . . . the facts recounted are, technically speaking, the same, but in the reader's mind, they have been transformed from isolated symptoms into a much more profound diagnosis. --Steven Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewWith exceptional empathy and care, Paul Farmer takes us through his experience with that health crisis and the difficult history that made those populations particularly vulnerable in his new book . . . the book begins as a true life medical thriller . . . If what we want in this moment is insight from this brilliant doctor about pandemics, he wants us to see that they do not occur in isolation. --Carolyn Kellogg, The Boston Globe"As Paul Farmer asserts in his vital new book, the world has no business forgetting [Ebola's] human toll . . . Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds is bold, humane and rigorously researched . . . Sure to be one of the definitive texts on the subject . . . Anyone who comes to this book with an open mind will find it hard to dispute his premise." --Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle"Eye-opening, densely detailed, and riveting . . . When it comes to Ebola in 2014, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds is no armchair account . . . Only Paul Farmer, I think, in his ability to write so knowledgeably and with such love and hope for all of humanity, could coax me to read 526 pages of text about a viral outbreak during a viral pandemic . . . From Farmer we learn that a world needs not only a COVID vaccine, but something much more: a rejection of global racial inequalities and an embrace of investing seriously in the care of all people." --Barbara J. King, NPRFarmer provides poignant personal accounts by Ebola survivors and health-care workers, a detailed history of the three Ebola-affected countries, and coverage of post-Ebola life, including the complications of the viral infection . . . A challenging, consequential, and tragically timely book about the forces that sculpt epidemics and
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- Autor: Farmer, Paul
