Mountains Beyond Mountains
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| Author | Tracy Kidder |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction, Physicians, Biography, Missionaries, Health Care |
| Publisher | Random House |
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Publication date
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2003 |
| Media type | Print Paperback |
| Pages | 317 p. (US paperback edition) |
| ISBN | (US paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 60527236 |
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (2003) is a non-fiction, biographical work by American writer Tracy Kidder. The book traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis in Haiti, Peru and Russia.
The book is written from the point of view of author Tracy Kidder. It is set mainly in Haiti and Boston, Massachusetts. Kidder first met his subject, Dr. Paul Farmer, in Haiti in 1994. At the time, Kidder was researching a story about American soldiers sent to reinstate Haiti's democratically elected government led by president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Kidder met Farmer again on his flight back to Miami, Florida from Haiti and began to learn about his life.
Farmer was born in Massachusetts and grew up as one of six children in a poor household in Florida. He studied at Duke and Harvard, where he earned his M.D and Ph.D. The rest of the book details Farmer's life and accomplishments, including his work with the health and social justice organization Partners in Health, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.
Kidder describes Paul Farmer as follows:
The book is primarily a biographical work broken into five parts.
PART I: Doktè Paul
Introduces Farmer's work at the Brigham in Boston, Massachusetts and at Zanmi Lasante founded by PIH in Cange, Haiti.
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