Morris, Patricia
The Difficulty of Doing GoodIncluding the Lambaréné diary of the orthopaedic surgeon Cecil Morris
Signatur: M001-B681-D001-B022
Buchart: Paperback
Verlag: The Author's Collective (T.A.C.), London (Großbritannien)
Veröffentlichung: 2024
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 180
Format: 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 20,4 x 12,6 cm x 1,2 cm
ISBN 13: 978-1-911047-66-7
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
0. Acknowledgements; 0. Preface; 0. Introduction; Part I: 1. The Mission; 2. Marriage to Hélène Bresslau; 3. Noah's Ark: Adoninalongo; 4. Woman at Lambaréné; 5. Straw Man; 6. The Fog of Philanthropy; 7. Anti-Nuclear Protest; 8. White Man in Africa; 9. The CIA, Belgium, and the Congo; Part II: The Lambaréné Diary of Cecil Morris, M.Ch., orthopaedic surgeon: a working visit to Schweitzer's hospital (17 May - 3 June 1957) 1. Introduction; 2. The Lambaréné Diary
Epilogue; Letter from Dr Albert Schweitzer, 30 July 1961; Letter from Nurse Elsje Boers, 30 July 1961; Letter from Nurse Ali Silver, 26 February 1964; References; Index
Kurzbeschreibung:
Tagebuch von Cecil Morris, der 1957 für 14 Tage im Hospital von Albert Schweitzer gearbeitet hat
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"This book was prompted by the notes my father made sixty years ago when he volunteered in 1957 at Albert Schweitzer's hospital and leper village in Lambaréné, in Gabon, central Africa. Schweitzer, a polymath - theologian, musician, philosopher, medical doctor - began his adult life as a Lutheran pastor in a village in Alsace. [...]"
0. Acknowledgements; 0. Preface; 0. Introduction; Part I: 1. The Mission; 2. Marriage to Hélène Bresslau; 3. Noah's Ark: Adoninalongo; 4. Woman at Lambaréné; 5. Straw Man; 6. The Fog of Philanthropy; 7. Anti-Nuclear Protest; 8. White Man in Africa; 9. The CIA, Belgium, and the Congo; Part II: The Lambaréné Diary of Cecil Morris, M.Ch., orthopaedic surgeon: a working visit to Schweitzer's hospital (17 May - 3 June 1957) 1. Introduction; 2. The Lambaréné Diary
Epilogue; Letter from Dr Albert Schweitzer, 30 July 1961; Letter from Nurse Elsje Boers, 30 July 1961; Letter from Nurse Ali Silver, 26 February 1964; References; Index
Kurzbeschreibung:
Tagebuch von Cecil Morris, der 1957 für 14 Tage im Hospital von Albert Schweitzer gearbeitet hat
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"This book was prompted by the notes my father made sixty years ago when he volunteered in 1957 at Albert Schweitzer's hospital and leper village in Lambaréné, in Gabon, central Africa. Schweitzer, a polymath - theologian, musician, philosopher, medical doctor - began his adult life as a Lutheran pastor in a village in Alsace. [...]"