C H A P T E R 6
The Construction Project
Imagining Reality
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
—Epictetus (c. 55–c. 135)
“UNACCEPTABLE!” In a ninety-minute conversation, that was the only word that Victoria Hale, the founder of the Institute for OneWorld Heath (IOWH), spat out in disgust. She uttered thousands of words in the course of my interview with her, words by turns emotional, reflective, analytical, funny, charming. But when the conversation turned to the pharmaceutical industry’s failure to address the needs of the poor, and the medical profession’s shrugging acceptance of that state of affairs, Hale let fly with a sentence that carried an explosive charge of contempt for laziness, complacency, ...
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