Journalist David Oliver Relin (1962-2012) was a recipient of
the Kiriyama Prize and a James A. Michener Fellowship. He
coauthored the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea.
Paul Farmer is the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti and
Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at
Harvard Medical School. He is also Chief of the Division of Global
Health Equity at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and
cofounder of Partners In Health. Among his numerous awards and
honors is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's
"genius award."
Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest
in humanitarian philanthropy--or, for that matter, a desire to feel
a little better about the world.-- "Outside"
A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic
health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his
teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain
trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps,
to reach settlements where they typically spend several days
operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical
theaters.-- "Washington Post"
As miracles go, it's hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that's
exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services
poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts--a
clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world's leading cause
of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two
doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those
in darkness.-- "Time"
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