[imc-rochester] Did anyone videotape Paul Farmer? Rochester: Wed Oct 6@ 7pm; Thurs Oct 7@4:30pm; Sat Oct. 9 @1:45pm

[Cris McConkey]

I had intended to drive the 2 hrs+ to Rochester and back to hear Paul 
Farmer.  Unfortunately, I caught a bad cold.

If his talk(s) in Rochester were video taped, I'd like a copy to 
review and perhaps show at my church (Unitarian Church of Ithaca).

If not...

Did he speak about his experiences in Haiti about the time of the coup?

I heard an interview with him on the BBC World Service that was quite 
revealing.

--Cris McConkey
Trumansburg, NY



>anyone interested in collaborating to cover/interview Paul Farmer? 
>
>>  Paul Farmer, MD to Speak at U. of R.
>>  Dr. Paul Farmer, a leading figure in the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS
>>  and
>>  tuberculosis, will visit Rochester in October to give the 2004 Lewis Henry
>>  Morgan
>>  Lectures, "Swords of Sorrow." The lectures are sponsored by the Department
>>  of
>>  Anthropology at the University of Rochester.
>>  The first of three public events with Farmer will be held at 7 p.m.
>>  Wednesday, Oct. 6, in
>>  Hubbell Auditorium of Hutchison Hall on the University's River Campus.
>>  Farmer will
>>  lecture on "Structural Violence and Human Rights." The lecture is free and
>>  open to the
>>  public.
>>  Anthony Carter, professor of anthropology and editor of the Morgan
>>  Lectures, observes
>>  that Farmer is among the most outspoken anthropologists trying to
>>  understand and
>>  correct structures of power that cause large numbers of people to be at
>>  increased risk of
>>  falling ill and far less likely to receive timely and effective treatment.
>>  He challenges
>>  health care providers and others to make a "preferential option for the
>>  poor," says Carter.
>>  Farmer has worked in infectious-disease control in the Americas for more
>>  than two
>>  3
>>  decades. He spends most of the year treating children and adults at a free
>>  clinic in rural
>>  Haiti operated by Partners In Health, an international charity
>>  organization he and others
>>  founded in 1987. He also travels extensively to collaborate on public
>>  health and global
>>  health equity issues.
>>  The Morgan Lectures will continue on Thursday, Oct. 7, with Farmer joining
>>  front-line
>>  workers and health care consumers in a panel discussion on health and
>>  health care
>>  disparities in Rochester, titled "Witnessing Health Care." The session
>>  begins at 4:30 p.m.
>>  in Hoyt Hall on the River Campus. It is also free and open to the public.
>>  A final appearance is planned for Meliora Weekend at the University of
>>  Rochester at
>>  1:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, in Hubbell Auditorium on the River Campus;
>>  this talk is free
>>  and open to the public. Farmer will speak on "Making Medicine Matter:
>>  Rethinking
>>  Health and Human Rights."
>>  The recent book by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond
>>  Mountains
>>  (Random House, 2003), details Farmer's life, motivations, and relentless
>>  effort to battle
>>  what he calls "the pathologies of power."
>>  With his colleagues at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and in
>>  the Program
>>  in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, Farmer
>>  has
>>  pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for infectious
>>  diseases in areas
>>  with far less than basic resources. They have been credited with
>>  successfully challenging
>>  policy makers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible
>>  to deliver in
>>  countries with large numbers of people living in poverty.
>>  Farmer began his lifelong commitment to Haiti when still a student, in
>>  1983,working
>>  with villagers in Haiti's Central Plateau. The following year he began
>>  medical school at
>>  Harvard University, and two years later helped found Zanmi Lasante (Creole
>>  for Partners
>>  In Health). With colleagues in Haiti and Peru, Farmer helped lead the
>>  international
>>  response to multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis, later found to be
>>  endemic in the former
>>  Soviet Union. His team established pilot treatment programs and organized
>  > effective
>>  delivery systems for medications.
>>  Farmer received his bachelor's degree in 1982 from Duke University, and
>>  his medical
>>  degree and doctorate in anthropology in 1990 from Harvard. He is the
>>  author or coauthor
>>  of more than 100 scholarly publications, including Pathologies of Power
>>  (2003);
>>  Infections and Inequalities (1998); and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the
>>  Geography
>>  of Blame (1992), all published by University of California Press. He has
>>  received the
>>  Heinz Award for the Human Condition, and the John D. and Catherine T.
>>  MacArthur
>>  Foundation "genius award" in recognition of his work.
>>  The Morgan Lectures honor the memory of Lewis Henry Morgan, the
>>  distinguished 19thcentury
>>  anthropologist and University of Rochester benefactor, and has been
>>  presented
>>  annually since 1963. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious lecture
>>  series in
>>  anthropology in North America.
>>  For more information on this year's series, "Swords of Sorrow: On
>>  Violence and Modernity," contact the Department of Anthropology at (585)
>>  275-8614.
>>
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