mountains beyond mountains 
When does everything slow down for Farmer, and why?
According to Farmer, what is the connection between poverty and disease? What does Farmer say on this theme, and what are your initial thoughts about this idea?
How much is charged to patients at Zanmi Lasante, and what does Farmer have to say about the issue of cost?
What is a "catchment area" and how has Zanmi Lasante created quality of life/health in this area it serves? How many peasant farmers rely on Zanmi Lasante? What are some of the health stats in this catchment area since 1988, including those related to TB?
Describe Farmer's logic about how we make moral choices, what we should and shouldn't have ambivalence about. (24)
Kidder narrates Farmer's appointment with Ti Ofa (29-30). Please describe what is most important about the way Farmer handles the clinical relationship in general and in this scene in particular.
What does the girl with meningitis yell during her spinal tap? Why is this a powerful moment in the book?
Socioeconomic arrangement as form of "structural violence" (Farmer 34). Comment.
What is the importance of the study that Farmer conducts in 1988 at Cange? How successful was the new program for treating TB that came out of the knowledge gained from that study?
Explain the context and importance of this quote: "Honey, are you incapable of complexity?" (35)
"The only noncompliant people are physicians" (36) Explain and comment.
"BUT WL'S think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves....." "Sacrifice, remorse, pity—it's what separates us from roaches" (40). Put in context and comment.
Describe the importance of the Peligre Dam along the Arbonite in the political, economic and health history of the Haitian people of the highlands. (37-39 and 44)
According to Farmer, what is the connection between poverty and disease? What does Farmer say on this theme, and what are your initial thoughts about this idea?
How much is charged to patients at Zanmi Lasante, and what does Farmer have to say about the issue of cost?
What is a "catchment area" and how has Zanmi Lasante created quality of life/health in this area it serves? How many peasant farmers rely on Zanmi Lasante? What are some of the health stats in this catchment area since 1988, including those related to TB?
Describe Farmer's logic about how we make moral choices, what we should and shouldn't have ambivalence about. (24)
Kidder narrates Farmer's appointment with Ti Ofa (29-30). Please describe what is most important about the way Farmer handles the clinical relationship in general and in this scene in particular.
What does the girl with meningitis yell during her spinal tap? Why is this a powerful moment in the book?
Socioeconomic arrangement as form of "structural violence" (Farmer 34). Comment.
What is the importance of the study that Farmer conducts in 1988 at Cange? How successful was the new program for treating TB that came out of the knowledge gained from that study?
Explain the context and importance of this quote: "Honey, are you incapable of complexity?" (35)
"The only noncompliant people are physicians" (36) Explain and comment.
"BUT WL'S think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves....." "Sacrifice, remorse, pity—it's what separates us from roaches" (40). Put in context and comment.
Describe the importance of the Peligre Dam along the Arbonite in the political, economic and health history of the Haitian people of the highlands. (37-39 and 44)