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World Ranking
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National Ranking
74

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Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Paul Farmer was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work spanned multiple disciplines, with a focus on both arts and humanities and medicine. The main fields of study included Arts and Humanities (27 publications), Medicine (11 publications), and Social Sciences (9 publications). Subfields that featured prominently in their work were Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory, Economics and Econometrics, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The topics addressed in Farmer's research displayed a diverse range, notably:

  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Irish and British Studies
  • Samuel Beckett and Modernism
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Global Health and Surgery

Farmer's recent publications included:

  • "Vaccination plus Decarceration - Stopping Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons" (2021), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines will advance global health equity" (2021), published in BMJ
  • "Shifting global surgery's center of gravity" (2022), published in Surgery
  • "'It is this which is normal' A qualitative study on girl child marriage and health in Conakry, Guinea" (2021), published in Social Science & Medicine
  • "Proposed reforms of the Mental Health Act" (2021), published in BMJ

Their frequent collaborators were:

  • Agnès Binagwaho (4 collaborations)
  • Abebe Bekele (4 collaborations)
  • Joia S. Mukherjee (3 collaborations)
  • Anatole Manzi (3 collaborations)
  • George Ikkos (2 collaborations)

Farmer published in various academic venues with multiple works appearing in BMJ (2 publications), as well as singular publications in New England Journal of Medicine, Surgery, Social Science & Medicine, and Anthropology and Medicine.

In terms of book publications, Farmer's contributions included:

  • Mind, State and Society (2021), published by Cambridge University Press, with 13 citations
  • After the Miners' Strike (2023), published by Applied Theatre Praxis, with 1 citation

Paul Farmer was recognized with several awards and honors during their career:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2003
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1993
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development.

    John G Meara;John G Meara;Andrew J M Leather;Lars E Hagander;Blake C Alkire

  • Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

    Paul Farmer

  • An Anthropology of Structural Violence1

    Paul Farmer

  • Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues

    Paul Farmer

  • Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

    Felicia Marie Knaul;Paul E Farmer;Eric L Krakauer;Eric L Krakauer;Liliana De Lima

  • Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

    Paul E Farmer;Bruce Nizeye;Sara Stulac;Salmaan Keshavjee

  • Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig

  • Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action.

    Paul Farmer;Julio Frenk;Felicia M Knaul;Lawrence N Shulman

  • Surgery and global health: a view from beyond the OR

    Paul Edward Farmer;Paul Edward Farmer;Paul Edward Farmer;Jim Y. Kim;Jim Y. Kim

  • On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below

    Paul Farmer

  • Understanding and addressing AIDS-related stigma: from anthropological theory to clinical practice in Haiti.

    Arachu Castro;Paul Farmer

  • Community-Based Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Lima, Peru

    Carole Mitnick;Jaime Bayona;Eda Palacios;Sonya Shin

  • Reducing psychiatric stigma and discrimination: evaluation of educational interventions in UK secondary schools.

    Vanessa Pinfold;Hilary Toulmin;Graham Thornicroft;Peter Huxley

  • Deciphering Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transmission and Early Envelope Diversification by Single-Genome Amplification and Sequencing

    Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Elizabeth Bailes;Kimmy T. Pham;Maria G. Salazar

  • Global access to surgical care: a modelling study.

    Blake C Alkire;Blake C Alkire;Nakul P Raykar;Nakul P Raykar;Mark G Shrime;Mark G Shrime;Thomas G Weiser

  • Community-based approaches to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings.

    Paul Farmer;Fernet Léandre;Joia S Mukherjee;Marie Sidonise Claude

  • Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor

    Erika Bourguignon;Paul Farmer

  • Inhibition of Osteoblast Differentiation by Tumor Necrosis Factor-α

    Linda Gilbert;Xiaofei He;Paul Farmer;Scott Boden

  • Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence

    Paul Farmer;Margaret Connors;Janie Simmons

  • Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases

    Paul Edward Farmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Agnes Binagwaho
Agnes Binagwaho Harvard University
Eric Hunter
Eric Hunter Emory University
Susan Allen
Susan Allen Emory University
Matthew Price
Matthew Price University of Vermont
Atul A. Gawande
Atul A. Gawande Brigham and Women's Hospital
Lawrence N. Shulman
Lawrence N. Shulman University of Pennsylvania
Arthur Kleinman
Arthur Kleinman Harvard University
Stéphane Verguet
Stéphane Verguet Harvard University
Felicia Marie Knaul
Felicia Marie Knaul University of Miami
Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Lisa R. Hirschhorn Northwestern University

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