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Tracy Kidder’s
\n
\nMountains Beyond Mountains<\/a><\/i> is the U.-wide shared reading for the fall
\nsemester at Syracuse. Because I will be teaching freshmen in the fall, I
\npicked up a complimentary copy from the Writing Program
\noffice
\nabout ten days ago, figuring I’d read it sooner rather than later to get some
\nsense of how it might merge in with the teaching I’ll be doing in late August. I
\nhaven’t worked that part out yet because I haven’t received my formal course
\nassignment (slight chance that it will be a Wellness Learning Community
\nsection). Still, it’s never too early to begin thinking about such things.
\nBasically, the book is Kidder’s journalistic portrait of the life-work of Dr.
\nPaul Farmer, a physician specializing in TB who is also trained as an
\nanthropologist and who has deep convictions about treating infectious disease
\nwhere it hits hardest–among the poor. A NYT Bestseller, the book trails
\nFarmer from his start-up work in Haiti, which grew into Partners In Health, to
\nrelated efforts to treat MDR (multiple drug resistant) TB in a region of Peru
\n(eventually the entire country) and also in the prison system in Russia. Farmer
\nis depicted as ingenious and unshakably committed to his work; he responds to
\nceaseless demands with a conventions-be-damned attitude toward medical treatment
\nand cost efficacy when it comes to TB treatments.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I had considered posting about the book earlier, noting the few
\ncheck-marks I’ve put in the margins next to the bits I want to find again–bits
\nabout Farmer’s language games (ending assertions about commonplace attitudes
\ntoward the poor with the word comma<\/i> to imply the unspoken word to follow:
\nasshole<\/i>; personifying infections diseases and closing his rants with
\nLove, ID<\/i>.; or his neologisms and PIH-speak: "[t]o commit ‘a seven-three’ was
\nto use seven words where three would, and a ‘ninety-nine one hundred’ was
\nquitting on a nearly completed job" (217). Or the bit about "hermeneutics of
\ngenerosity" (215), where ethos blends with the believing game.<\/p>\n

The TB-infected
\npassenger<\/a> who hopped aboard a flight to Atlanta generated more noise than I would have
\nexpected in light of reading Kidder’s book. I’m no TB expert (not even
\nclose), but Kidder’s book gives a reasonably straight-forward account of the
\ndifferences among the virus’s drug resistances. In fact, Farmer is notable
\nin the subject-of-a-book sort of way in part because he is credited with getting
\nat the complexities of TB’s multiply resistant manifestations. The
\nbreakthroughs in Peru involved his realization that certain first-line
\ntreatments of the disease were, in effect, teaching<\/i> the virus to resist certain
\ndrugs. Treatment success rates were so low because the medical
\nestablishment hadn’t yet figured out that their treatments were smartening up
\nthe virus. The treatments were proliferating strands of the virus that
\nwere less likely to be remedied through conventional and decades-old practices.\n<\/p>\n

This week’s news, however, involves a case of XDR<\/i> TB or extensively drug
\nresistant tuberculosis, for which there is only a 30-pecent cure-rate (so says
\nCNN). I can’t remember any discussion of XDR TB in Mountains Beyond
\nMountains<\/i> (my biggest complaint about the book is that it doesn’t have an
\nindex), but as these events play out, as passengers who held seats on the plane get tested, and
\nas we watch the airlines scramble to resolve the medicalization of air space
\n(not only for flying and border-crossing, but for breathing), I am thinking
\nabout this splash of news as a kind of mini-sequel to Kidder’s book, an extra
\nchapter in what is, for me, a new awareness of the complex set of issues knotted
\ntogether where medical research, germ circulation, epidemiology, border-keeping, and
\nhealth care privacy come together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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