Sunday, April 3, 2005
A Conversation With Paul Farmer Healing the World by Curing the ...
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... Dr. Paul Farmer tries to deliver modern health ... 2003 best seller about Dr. Farmer's life, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," the writer Tracy Kidder described him as ...
A short article on Kidder and Farmer's visit to Duke University.
http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/issues/030405/islands3.html
Doctor Paul Farmer
For nearly two decades Dr. Paul Farmer has been tending the world's sick and poor in places like Peru, Russia and Haiti. We'll talk with him about what it really takes to make a difference in the world.http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2005/04/20050408_a_main.asp
Visit The Connection website at: http://www.theconnection.org
Some of these links are only available 1) to active LSU students OR 2) on the LSU campus. If you are an incoming Freshman, you will not have access to them until you start classes. If you would like to read these articles over the summer, please visit campus. Middleton Library has computers available to anyone.
Web Sites (available to anyone, anywhere)
http://www.haitiaction.net
Political and news articles, mostly in support of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
http://www.windowsonhaiti.com
Information in a number of areas (including finding dates!). There are some wonderful photographs in a slide show on its home page.
Partners in Health
http://www.pih.org/index.htm
Mountains Beyond Mountains (note, this page is owned by Partners in Health, not the book publisher)
www.mountainsbeyondmountains.org
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/24/doctor_gives_bc_grads_a_prescription/
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v13/my27/commencement-2005.html
Articles from the CQ Researcher. This database is a valuable resource for many of the "hot topics" that students write papers about. It is particularly good for providing a "Pro/Con" section for many issues, and extensive bibliographies. It is available on the LSU campus only.
Hansen, B. (2001, August 31). Children in Crisis. The CQ Researcher Online, 11, 657-688. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
Read the article and ask, “Are rich nations doing enough to help?” http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2001083100.
Masci, D. (2000, October 13). Global AIDS Crisis. The CQ Researcher Online, 10, 809-832. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
Read the article and ask, “Are developing nations getting enough help?” http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2000101300.
Magazine and journal articles from Library Databases and journal subscriptions.
These include databases containing many full text articles from both scholarly journals and non scholarly magazines. This links will go directly to the full text of the article. Most are available on the LSU campus, or off campus with an LSU id number and PIN.
Castro, Arachu; Farmer, Paul. “Infectious disease in Haiti. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and social inequalities.” E M B O Reports, 4 Spec No: pp. S20-3, 2003 June ISSN: 1469-221X
http://emboreports.npgjournals.com/cgi/reprint/4/suppl_1/S20
4 pages long, this article is freely available to anyone, anywhere
Check, Erika. “Doctors battle to contain AIDS epidemic as unrest engulfs Haiti.” Nature, 428(6978): p. 3, 2004 March 4 ISSN: 1476-4687
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/apps/onoffcampus.php?url=http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v428/n6978/full/428003a_fs.html&content_filetype=pdf
Fitzgerald, Dan W; Mabey, David; Peeling, Rosanna W; Watson-Jones, Deborah.
Avoiding HIV and dying of syphilis. Lancet, 364(9445): pp. 1561-3, 2004 October 30 ISSN: 1474-547X
"Focuses on efforts in developing countries to prevent the maternal-fetal transmission of syphilis. Efforts of the Haitian government to provide prenatal care that includes treatment for a variety of maternal diseases; Negative impact of maternal syphilis on infant illness and mortality; Prevalence of maternal syphilis infection in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti; Potential impact of standard syphilis screening in prenatal care on maternal and infant health."
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/apps/onoffcampus.php?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hch&an=14873652&loginpage=Login.asp
Find more articles
The LSU Libraries subscribes to about 300 databases that will help you find more information on any topic. The two databases listed below contain articles, or citations to articles, relating to the Summer Reading Program topics.
AIDSearch
Use this database to find information relating to AIDS. Enter keywords to find citations to articles about the disease, dating back as far as 1980 and up to the present. The database contains some links to full text. Others you may be able to find in the library. Don’t forget to Ask a Librarian [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/virtual/] if you need assistance. This database is only available on the LSU campus.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/allaids.html
Healthsource
Use this database to find information relating to any health topic. This database contains a lot of full text articles, published in medical journals as well as magazines for the non professional. There are many ways to search the database, including keyword, author, article length, and more. Don’t forget to Ask a Librarian [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/virtual/] if you need assistance. This database is available on the LSU campus to anyone, or off the LSU campus to current students, faculty, and staff (incoming Freshmen will have to wait for classes to start to get off campus access).
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/healthsaf.html
Government Documents and Agencies
Background Note Haiti
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.”
World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/en/
“The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Local Information
Baton Rouge AIDS Society
http://www.batonrougeaidssociety.com
“The Baton Rouge AIDS Society (BRASS) serves as a testing and training provider to the state of Louisiana, with special emphasis on the Greater Baton Rouge area, offering avenues which foster ethical, personal, social-emotional and intellectual development. We believe these qualities are essential to making appropriate choices that will ultimately decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STDs, as well as increase civic responsibility.”
The full text of the articles is available on the LSU campus to anyone, or off the LSU campus to current students, faculty, and staff (incoming Freshmen will have to wait for classes to start to get off campus access). Don’t forget to Ask a Librarian [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/virtual/] if you need assistance finding. Search Lexis Nexis Academic to find the articles. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/LexisNexisAcademic.html
Wold, Amy. “AIDS Day events set; BR 2nd in U.S. in cases,” The Advocate, December 1, 2004 Wednesday, Metro Edition, Pg. 2-B;S.
Gyan, Joe. “LSU Center gets Grant to Study Sexual Diseases,” The Advocate, October 7, 2004 Thursday, Metro Edition, Pg. 4-B;S.
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) for Louisiana
http://www.atdn.org/access/states/la/care.html
On the Web
Paul Farmer – the faculty page at the Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/people/faculty/PaulFarmer.html