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Much of Farmer’s discomfort is not so much with Kidder or the book as with his own fame—what he describes as the unintended side effects of his relentless efforts to promote Partners in Health’s agenda of a preferential option for the poor. Paul Farmer may not be a household name, but as infectious-disease doctors go, he is a veritable celebrity...
...Kidder says Farmer was reluctant when he first proposed writing the book...
...awareness of the problems Partners in Health tackles—and, ultimately, more funding for the organization, whose coffers are perennially and intentionally low, as it spends 95 percent of its charity income on its projects. And so, he says, he overcame his distaste for celebrity and cooperated with Kidder...
Farmer says he is confident at last that Kidder managed to see beyond the single-hero mode and tell that fuller story. For his part, Kidder says he is moving on soon to a memoir of his year of service in Vietnam—but he says it would be impossible for him to close the door on Farmer and PIH when he concludes his current book tour...
...Kidder says he has taken to spreading Farmer’s gospel outside of any promotion for his book, “clearing whole rooms at parties boring people telling them about Haiti.” And acknowledging that his continued presence in Cange would be “worse than useless,” Kidder says he wants to convince as many people as he can to join him in donating money...