right to health care

Presents the life of the American physician and medical educator, Paul Farmer, who dedicated his life to serving the poor of Haiti and Peru and challenging world health policies.

Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform healthcare on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.

Discusses the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, focusing on the articles that ensure the right to good health, and looks at conditions in various places of the world that prevent children from getting the medicine, water, and food they need to stay healthy.

Contains three pairs of essays that offer opposing opinions on issues related to universal health care, debating whether health care in the United States is a basic human right or commodity, the pros and cons of a national single-payer system, and how to manage systems while insuring quality.

Chronicles the life of Paul Farmer, focusing on his efforts to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring modern medicine to the countries and people who need them most.

Presents firsthand accounts of global poverty, arguing that promoting the social and economic rights of the poor is the most important struggle of modern times, and challenging conventional thinking on human rights by comparing the relationship between political injustices and the suffering of the powerless.

Addresses questions about health care in the United States, discussing who provides, pays for, and regulates health care, the problems of inefficiency and inequity, and related political issues, and looking at health care services around the world.

Chronicles the life of Paul Farmer, focusing on his efforts to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring modern medicine to the countries and people who need them most.