Paul Farmer and Adia Benton: Aftermath: A Dialogue About Ebola

Date: 

Friday, January 27, 2017, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall 1550

 

Friday Morning Seminar presentation by:

Dr. Paul Farmer is Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He and his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad have pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings in the U.S. and other countries. Their work is documented in the Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationThe Lancet, the New England Journal of MedicineClinical Infectious Diseases, and Social Science and Medicine.

Dr. Farmer also has written extensively on health and human rights, about the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases, and about global health. His most recent book, Reimagining Global Health, co-edited with three colleagues, presents a distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems. Other titles include To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation, a collection of short speeches, Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer ReaderPathologies of PowerInfections and InequalitiesThe Uses of Haiti, and AIDS and Accusation. In addition, Dr. Farmer is co-editor of Women, Poverty, and AIDSThe Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, and Global Health in Times of Violence.

 

Dr. Adia Benton is Assistant Professor in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University, Chicago. She is a cultural anthropologist with interests in global health, biomedicine, development and humanitarianism and professional sports. Dr. Benton focuses on patterns of inequality in the distribution of and the politics of care in settings “socialized” for scarcity. This means understanding the political, economic and historical factors shaping how care is provided in complex humanitarian emergencies and in longer-term development projects – like those for health.

Her first book, HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone (University of Minnesota, 2015), explores the treatment of AIDS as an exceptional disease and the recognition and care that this takes away from other diseases and public health challenges in poor countries.