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Paul Farmer was a 20th-century American medical anthropologist and physician. Paul Edward Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Read more on Wikipedia →

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