Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, Paul Farmer
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, Paul Farmer
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
Ebola and the Ravages of History

Author: Paul Farmer

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 22 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2020

Synopsis

In 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, he 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.

About Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University, the chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a founding director of Partners In Health. Among his numerous awards and honors is the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

Reviews

Goodreads review by jrendocrine at least reading is good on March 10, 2021

I have mixed feelings about this book. Importantly, for those of us who remember Paul Farmer as the protagonist of Mountains beyond Mountains - we need to remember that Tracy Kidder wrote that wonderful inspiring book. This book is written by Paul Farmer. 1. The first chapters are terrific, on the gro......more

Goodreads review by Erika on July 28, 2020

Just when I thought I couldn't respect and look up to Paul Farmer any more, he floors me with this. So much more than just a first hand account of the Ebola outbreaks, he dives deep into the social, economic, and militaristic history of the region. It's rare that authors provide such a wide scope al......more

Goodreads review by Sami on November 14, 2020

This is such a timely book as we are afflicted by the global COVID-19 pandemic and have the crucial post-COVID-19 recovery ahead of us. Anyone familiar with Professor Farmer’s work would appreciate his humble and profoundly holistic approach to health, with rigorous clinical guidance. This is yet an......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on November 01, 2020

There is a story in my family about my sister asking Mom a question while she was fixing dinner. Mom told her to go ask our Dad. “I don’t want to know that much,” responded my sister. I fear many readers will have this reaction to Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds by Paul Farmer. Only the nerdiest of global......more

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A challenging, consequential, and tragically timely book about the forces that sculpt epidemics and the necessity of compassion and altruism in caring for their victims.

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