Common Reading 2006

Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Random House, New York, 2003

• Book Description from Library of Congress
• Read a book excerpt from Random House
• Listen to a reading by the author, from NPR
• Q & A with Kidder from Random House 

Volunteering - from Tracy Kidder's talk...
Links to websites for volunteer and fundraising possibilities

MbM Web Site
Mountains Beyond Mountains/Partners in Health

Local News   **updated 10/25**
MHC Office of Communications Press Release.
Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science
xannounces...
xxFree public talk Nov 9 - "Reproducing Inequities"

Book Reviews
Available via Academic Search Premier.
(Search for the book title and limit to book reviews)

Biography of Tracy Kidder
Available via Biography Resource Center.

Volunteer Opportunities - places to explore:

• UN Volunteers Programme
• Cross-Cultural Solutions
• International Volunteer Programs Association
• International Medical Volunteers Association
• Idealist and Action Without Borders
• St. Boniface Haiti Foundation
• World Volunteer Web
• Christian Mission Opportunities
• United Planet  "the world's largest cultural exchange"
• Serve Your World - Travel With Purpose
• metasite from UC-Irvine's International Opportunities Program
• MHC Career Development Services
  The CDC has many resources, including these recommended books:
  *Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and U.S. Volunteer Opportunities, edited by Phil Lowenthal
  *How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas, by Joseph Collins

Fundraising Examples and Opportunities:

• FACE AIDS
• Walk for Haiti
• Ride 4 World Health
• YES Ride
• Boston connections--
  Richard Goulding & Ryan Brown at Boston College
  Matt Basilico & Nick Rizzo at Harvard

Selected Reference Resources

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online biographical article about Paul Farmer
• Europa World Year Book background and overview of Haiti (or Peru, etc.)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - search for information in reference works that include:
  • Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease 2003
  • Encyclopedia of Public Health 4v, 2002
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002

Further Reading
For further exploration of the themes and issues explored in Mountains Beyond Mountains, here are a few suggestions. 
You'll find much more by searching in the Library Catalog under subjects like:

• Haiti - social conditions
• AIDS (disease)
• Tuberculosis - history
• Public Health - moral and ethical aspects
• Human Rights

Infectious Diseases and Public Health

• 25 questions & answers on health & human rights [electronic resource]
• Primary health care and family planning in rural Haiti / Laura Wedeen
  Div III SS86 .W45 [Hampshire College]
• Communicable and non-communicable disease basics : a primer / Madeline M. Hurster
  RB151 .H87 1997
• Infectious disease epidemiology : theory and practice / [edited by] Kenrad E. Nelson, Carolyn Masters Williams, Neil M.H. Graham
  RA643 .I644 2000
• Control of communicable diseases manual : an official report of the American Public Health Association / James Chin, editor
  RA643 .C65 2000 [Hampshire & Smith Colleges]
• Timebomb: the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne
  RC312 .R454 2002

Poverty, Inequality, and Health Issues

• The return of the white plague : global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis / edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla
  RA644.T7 R486 2003
• Macroeconomics and health [electronic resource] : investing in health for economic development : report of the Commission ...
• Issues in contemporary international health / edited by Thomas A. Lambo and Stacey B. Day
  RA441 .I88 1990 [Hampshire College]
• Voices from the global margin : confronting poverty and inventing new lives in the Andes / by William P. Mitchell
  F3429.3.E2 M58 2006
• African poverty at the millennium [electronic resource] : causes, complexities, and challenges / Howard White and Tony Killick in collaboration with Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa and Marie-Angelique Savane.
• The zombie curse : a doctor's 25-year journey into the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Haiti / Arthur M. Fournier, with Daniel Herlihy
  RA643.86.H35 F68 2006
• Inequality; social stratification reconsidered / Lloyd A. Fallers
  HM146 .F3

International Cooperation in Public Health

• Making a healthy world : agencies, actors, and policies in international health / Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila.
  RA441 .K65 1997
• International cooperation for health : problems, prospects, and priorities / [edited by] Michael R. Reich, Eiji Marui
  RA441 .I56 1989 [Hampshire College]
• International health organizations and their work.
  614.06 G623i [Smith College]
• Investing in health [electronic resource] : development effectiveness in the health, nutrition, and population sector / Timothy A. Johnston, Susan Stout
• Combating AIDS in the developing world / Josh Ruxin, Agnes Binagwaho, Paul A. Wilson.
  RA643.86.D44 C66 2005 [Amherst College]

In the News - Partners in Health & Paul Farmer
(Search LexisNexis for more News articles. For news from foreign news agencies, search World News Connecttion.)

• Health as a Birthright by: Catherine Arnst in: Business Week; 5/29/2006 Issue 3986, p20
• Champion Of the Poor by: Philip Elmer-DeWitt in: Time; 11/7/2005, Vol. 166 Issue 19, p79-83
• Wiping Out TB and AIDS by: Michael Satchell in: U.S. News & World Report, 10/31/2005, Vol. 139 Issue 16, p60-62

Works by Paul Farmer:

• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
  RA418.5.P6 F37 1999
  Electronic Version (on campus only)
• AIDS and accusation : Haiti and the geography of blame
  RA644.A25 F37 1992
• Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen
  HM821 .F37 2003
  Electronic Version (on campus only)
• The Uses of Haiti
  F1928.2 .F37 1994
• Women, poverty, and AIDS : sex, drugs, and structural violence / edited by Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons
  RA644.A25 W657 1996

Search for Articles using Research Databases, such as:

• AGRICOLA
• EconLit
• Health Reference Center
• LexisNexis
• PubMed & MedlinePlus
• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)

Selected Internet Resources

• World Health Organization
• Partners in Health
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

This guide was prepared by Duan Li '08, LITS Technology Mentor, in collaboration with a LITS Librarian. 
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