Mountains Beyond Mountains
By Tracy Kidder
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Tracy Kidder's 2003 book follows Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist who devoted his career to bringing modern medicine to the world's poorest people. Kidder travels with Farmer from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, following his work against tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. He shows how Farmer challenged the medical establishment's thinking about health care for the poor, guided by the belief that "the only real nation is humanity," and how politics, wealth and disease interact.