Biography--Medicine


40 books
Albert Schweitzer

the man and his mind

by George Seaver

Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

ENG
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Albert Schweitzer

1875-1965. Eine Biographie

Nils Ole Oermann

Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

GER
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Appointment at the ends of the world

memoirs of a wildlife veterinarian

William B. Karesh

Wildlife veterinarian Animal husbandry Travel--World Travel--Tropics Memoirs Karesh, William B. Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine

ENG
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Arigo

surgeon of the rusty knife

John G. Fuller

Biography--Medicine Biography--Spiritual persons Arigó, Zé (aka José Pedro de Freitas, 1921-1971)

ENG
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Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single)

Damien Brown

Doctors Without Borders Africa--Social conditions Memoirs Biography--Medicine Brown, Damien (Australian MD) Travel--Africa

ENG
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Call the midwife

a true story of the East End in the 1950s

The midwife

Jennifer Worth; clinical ed. Terri Coates

Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Women Midwives Worth, Jennifer (Midwife, 1935-2011)

ENG
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Enfance, au féminin

Taslima Nasreen; trad. du Bengali par Philippe Benoît

Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Feminism and literature Women--Islam Nasrin, Taslima (1962-) Memoirs Bengal (India)--Manners and customs

FRE
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Feuilles d'automne

récit.

Adeline Yen Mah ; tradits de l'anglais par Joyce Jolas.

Chinese Americans--Social life and customs Mah, Adeline Yen (1937-) Physicians--Women Social stratification--Women Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Memoirs

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Fourth uncle in the mountain

a memoir of a barefoot doctor in Vietnam

Quang Van Nguyen and Marjorie Pivar

Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Buddhism Memoirs Nguyen, Quang Van Vietnamese Americans--Biography

ENG
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Francis Rabelais

the man and his work

by Albert Jay Nock & C. R. Wilson

Biography--Literature--France Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Rabelais, François (French humanist, 1483-1553)

ENG
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Geschichte einer Jugend

Hans Carossa

Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Literature--Germany Carossa, Hans (German writer, 1878-1956)

GER
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Healer

Dr Prathap Chandra Reddy and the transformation of India

Pranay Gupte

Biography--Business, economy, finance Biography--Medicine Reddy, Prathap Chandra (Apollo Hospitals, 1933-) Entrepreneurship--India

ENG
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Hildegard von Bingen

haar leven, mystiek, muziek en geneeskunde

Louis A. M. van den Bercken

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Biography--Music Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Hildegard of Bingen (Saint, 1098-1179)

DUT
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Hildegarde de Bingen

conscience inspirée du XIIe siècle

Régine Pernoud

Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Biography--Music Hildegard of Bingen (Saint, 1098-1179) Saints--Christianity--Women

FRE
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In the Land of Invisible Women

a female doctor's journey in the Saudi Kingdom

Qanta A. Ahmed, MD

Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Ahmed, Qanta A. (MD, fem.activist) Travel--Saudi-Arabia Muslims--Biography Physicians--Women Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs

ENG
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Inner strength

a true story of a cancer patient's battle against all odds in life

by Purnima Vasudeva

Cancer--Patients Memoirs Biography--Medicine

ENG
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Komt een vrouw bij de dokter

Kluun

Memoirs Biography--Medicine Cancer--Patients Breast cancer

DUT
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La vie, lamort, la vie

Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895

Erik Orsenna

Biography--Medicine Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)

FRE
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Mountains beyond mountains

Tracy Kidder

Biography--Medicine Farmer, Paul (US anthrop. & physician, 1959-) Diseases--Communicable

ENG
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My girlhood : an autobiography

Taslima Nasrin

Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Pakistan Biography--Medicine Feminism and literature Women--Islam Nasrin, Taslima (1962-) Memoirs

ENG
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My life & thought

an autobiography

Albert Schweitzer; transl. by C. T. Campion

Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Biography--Travellers Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

ENG
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My own country

a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS

A. Verghese

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects Biography--Medicine Verghese, Abraham (American physician, 1955-) Physicians

ENG
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Mythos Paracelsus

Werk und Leben von Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

Franz Rueb

Biography--Alchemists Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Paracelsus (Swiss polymath, 1493-1541)

GER
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Patrick Manson, the father of tropical medicine

Sir Philip Manson-Bahr

Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Medicine Medicine--Tropical Parasitology

ENG
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Psychoanalyse und Marxismus

eine intellektuelle Biographie Wilhelm Reichs

Wilhelm Burian

Biography--Philosophy Biography--Medicine Biography--Psychology Reich, Wilhelm (Psychoanalyst, 1897-1957) Psychoanalytic systems Marxism (Economics)

GER
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Religio Medici

to which is added, Hydropathia, or Urn-burial, a discource on sepulchral urns

by Sir Thomas Browne, MD, of Norwich

Memoirs Spiritual memoirs Biography--Medicine Browne, Thomas (Engl. polymath, 1605-1682) Science and religion Death customs

ENG
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Ten decades of happenings

the autobiography

of Winifred Rushforth

Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Psychology Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Women--India Rushforth, Winifred (1885-1983)

ENG
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The gaze of the gazelle

the story of a generation

Arash Hejazi

Iran--History--20th century Iran--History--21st century Memoirs Biography--Medicine Hejazi, Arash (Iranian physician, writer, 1971-)

ENG
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Biography--Medicine Cancer--Patients

ENG
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The man with the miraculous hands

the fantastic story of Felix Kersten, Himmler's private doctor

Joseph Kessel

Biography--Medicine Kersten, Felix (1898-1960)

ENG
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The medical discoveries of Edward Bach, physician

what the flowers do for the human body

by Nora Weeks

Biography--Medicine Bach, Edward (Flower therapist, 1886-1936) Flowers--Therapeutic use

ENG
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The real James Herriot

the authorized biography

Jim Wight

Biography--Medicine Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Herriot, James (aka Alf Wight, English TV veterinary, 1916-1995) Veterinarians

ENG
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Um Füsse bat ich, und er gab mir Flügel

Biographie der indischen Ärztin Mary Verghese

Dorothy C. Wilson

Biography--Medicine Biography--Women Verghese, Mary Puthisseril (1925-1986)

GER
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Uncle Tungsten

memories of a chemical boyhood

Oliver Sacks

Diseases of nervous system Biography--Medicine Sacks, Oliver (Brit.neurologist, 1933-2015) Memoirs

ENG
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Under an Indian sky

Ten years in a Bihar village

Janet Ganguli

Biography--Medicine

ENG
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Verrückter kann man gar nicht leben

Ärztin, Nonne, Powerfrau

Ruth Pfau

Travel--Afghanistan Travel--Pakistan Afghanistan--History--1992-2001 (Taliban Emirate) Social work Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Pfau, Ruth (Christian missionary, 1929-2017) Memoirs

GER
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Wahn, der mich beglückt

Karriere und Ketzerei eines Arztes

Hackethal, Julius

Biography--Medicine Hackethal, Julius (1921-) Memoirs

GER
Missing
Missing
When breath become air

Paul Kalanithi

Death--Apparent, Imminent Death--Preparation Physicians Cancer--Patients Memoirs Biography--Medicine Kalanithi, Paul (Neurosurgeon, 1977-2015)

ENG
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Where memories gather

chuckles & wisdom

Hilary Lyons

Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Travel--Sierra Leone Anecdotes Missions--Africa Missions--Christian

ENG
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விழிவேள்வி

Vizhivelvi

மு.சிவலிங்கம்

Ophthalmologists Biography--Medicine Biography--India--Tamils Vizhivelvi (Founder of Arvind Eye hospitals)

TAM
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