Berman, Edgar
A remarkable memoir by the U.S. surgeon who worked with SchweitzerSignatur: M001-B681-D001-B020
Buchart: Hardcover
Verlag: New Horizon Press, Far Hills, NJ (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Veröffentlichung: 1986
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 308
Format: gr. 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 23,5 x 16,0 cm x 3,0 cm
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. The Odyssey-The Contract; 2. The Trial-The Controversy; 3. The Insightful Bells; 4. The Heretical Quest; 5. Adapting to Life in the Raw; 6. A Personality of Paradoxes; 7. A Practice Primeval; 8. Medicine Men versus Medicine; 9. The Quest Continued; 10. A Night to Remember; 11. Colonialist or Pragmatist; 12. Bach: His Spiritual Catalyst; 13. Village Life-Another Talk; 14. The Political Schweitzer; 15. Reverence for Life; 16. Man, Animals and Schweitzer; 17. The Triage of Reverence; 18. Remembrances and Comparisons; 19. Jesus: Messiah or Paranoiac; 20. A Troubled Mind; 21. Problems in Mecca; 22. The Last Farewell; 23. The Metamorphosis: From Lambarene to Paris; 24. Lambarene: 20 Years Later
Kurzbeschreibung:
Memoirs by Dr. Edgar Berman who worked as a surgeon with Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"As a practicing surgeon in Baltimore, I was president of Tom Dooley's Medico, an international organization that sent American physicians to work to developing countries for short periods. In the fall of 1960, Dr. Schweitzer requested a surgeon from Medico to come to Lambarene as a temporary replacement for his chief surgeon. I volunteered (along with my wife, Phoebe). However, my personal motives for going were less medical than was my interest in one of the few great men of our century. [...]"
1. The Odyssey-The Contract; 2. The Trial-The Controversy; 3. The Insightful Bells; 4. The Heretical Quest; 5. Adapting to Life in the Raw; 6. A Personality of Paradoxes; 7. A Practice Primeval; 8. Medicine Men versus Medicine; 9. The Quest Continued; 10. A Night to Remember; 11. Colonialist or Pragmatist; 12. Bach: His Spiritual Catalyst; 13. Village Life-Another Talk; 14. The Political Schweitzer; 15. Reverence for Life; 16. Man, Animals and Schweitzer; 17. The Triage of Reverence; 18. Remembrances and Comparisons; 19. Jesus: Messiah or Paranoiac; 20. A Troubled Mind; 21. Problems in Mecca; 22. The Last Farewell; 23. The Metamorphosis: From Lambarene to Paris; 24. Lambarene: 20 Years Later
Kurzbeschreibung:
Memoirs by Dr. Edgar Berman who worked as a surgeon with Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"As a practicing surgeon in Baltimore, I was president of Tom Dooley's Medico, an international organization that sent American physicians to work to developing countries for short periods. In the fall of 1960, Dr. Schweitzer requested a surgeon from Medico to come to Lambarene as a temporary replacement for his chief surgeon. I volunteered (along with my wife, Phoebe). However, my personal motives for going were less medical than was my interest in one of the few great men of our century. [...]"