ONE BOOK, ONE ZIP CODE: EDUCATIONAL
MATERIALS
The
first book for our new One Book, One Zip Code program is Mountains Beyond
Mountains by Tracy Kidder.
If you are teaching this book, leading a book discussion or just want some
additional resources about it, here are some learning tools to use. There are
links to useful websites, video
clips, audio clips, photographs,
and downloads to help you explore the
work of Dr. Farmer and issues raised in the book.
If
you have found a useful site or created educational materials that you would
like to share, please contact me and we will try
to add them to this website!
CLICK
HERE FOR A CHAPTER BY CHAPTER READING AND TEACHING GUIDE THAT I HAVE
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Links:
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The
University
of
Washington
prepared “study notes” which focus on activities and discussions in a
variety of disciplines.
The
University
of
Washington
created an excellent alphabetic glossary of the terms used in the book.
St. Joseph
University
created several resource guides that focus on a variety of aspects of the book:
One focuses on
philosophy, faith and social justice, one
focuses on social studies,
one focuses on
political science and “rights",
and one focuses on
theology and religion.
A
good reader’s guide, which could also be used by book groups, from Dr.
Jennifer Lerner, Assistant Professor of Sociology at
Northern
Virginia
Community College
.
Dr.
Farmer wrote an article for the Notre Dame Magazine entitled, “If We Fail To
Act.”
Dr.
Farmer’s organization, Partners In Health has its own website.
An
interview with Tracy Kidder.
Information
about Dr. Farmer’s book, Pathologies of Power.
The
Harvard University Gazette featured an article about Dr. Farmer and Mr. Kidder
talking to high school students.
A
scholarly article, written by Dr. Farmer and others on “Structural Violence
and Clinical Medicine.”
Video:
Video
of a presentation by Dr. Farmer and Dr. Jonathon Moreno, director of the Center
for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia at the University of
Washington.
A
short video in which Dr. Farmer talks to students at Stanford on YouTube.
An
excellent Florida NBC station news story about doctors in
Haiti
on YouTube.
Audio:
NPR
interviewed Dr. Farmer in 2003.
A
second NPR interview with Dr. Farmer in 2006.
NPR
interviewed Tracy Kidder about the book and also offers audio of him reading
from it. This site also has an except from the book.
An
interview with Dr. Farmer on the Social Innovations Channel.
Dr.
Farmer participates in an hour long program on NPR discussing tuberculosis in
Haiti
.
Photographs:
Pictures
of Dr. Farmer in
Haiti
from the
St. Petersburg
Times
Photos
of the Partners In Health clinic in
Haiti
from the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Photos
of many of the Partners In Health projects from the Brigham and Woman’s
Hospital in
Boston
.
Downloads:
The
University
of
Florida
created a very good teaching guide.
Professors
at
Whitworth
University
wrote short essays responding to the book.
Random
House, the publisher of the book, has a brief teaching guide.
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