Program
Guest lecture by Paul Farmer | ||
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15.00 | Introduction | Espen Bjertness and Ole Petter Ottersen |
15.10 |
"Structural interventions to address structural violence: Global health equity in Haiti and Rwanda" |
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15.50 | Invited discussants | |
16:15 | Comments and questions | Chair: John-Arne Røttingen |
16:45 | Structural Violence and Death | Per Fugelli |
17:00 | Break | |
Postlude: Social Medicine in the age of Global Health - A conversation between Per Fugelli and Paul Farmer | ||
17:15 |
Activist or academic? Researcher or missionary? Politician or white-coated healer? |
A conversation between Paul Farmer and Per Fugelli. |
"In each new generation of doctors, ..... this branch of medicine attracts not only analytical minds, but also people who feel a strong vocation to improve health in society by attacking plain injustice. They are impatient with the distant attitude of science." Jan P. Vandenbroucke.
About Paul Farmer
Paul Edward Farmer is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing suitable health care to rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries, beginning in Haiti. Co-founder of an international social justice and health organization, Partners In Health (PIH), he is known as "the man who would cure the world," as described in the book, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.
Farmer is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
In August 2009, Farmer was named United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti (serving under former US President Bill Clinton, in his capacity as Special Envoy), to assist in improving the economic and social conditions of the Caribbean nation.
About Per Fugelli
As a general practitioner, Per Fugelli has been an independent critic of his own profession for many years. He has opposed the bureaucratisation of Norwegian health care institutions. Fugelli takes a humanistic approach to health and social policy, focussing on the entire individual. He has shown that the best "social medicine" is to build up and share dignity with vulnerable groups such as ethnic minorities, the poor and those who are physically challenged.
Through countless lectures and fearless participation in a large number of important debates, he has been a prominent contributor to Norway's public space fora for a long time. He was awarded The Freedom of Expression Prize 2013.
Event Committee
- Espen Bjertness
- John-Arne Røttingen
- Anne Kveim Lie
Previous lectures
- 2015: Sir Andrew Haines: "Planetary health - human health and global environmental change"
- 2014: Richard Horton and Anthony Costello
- Horton: "The Seeress's Prophecy: a 21st century retelling"
- Costello: "The fundamental concept in social science is power" (Bertrand Russell). How can this idea help us build a global social medicine to tackle sustainable development challenges?
The patient earth
The topic of this seminar is based on an article from 1993: In search of a global social medicine (pdf). After publishing the article, Fugelli and a group of students established a forum called "The patient earth". The forum inspired students and researchers at the Faculty of Medicine to focus on global health.