Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965): A reverence for life

Albert Schweitzer, The Story of His Life

This volume will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of schools of nursing. Designed to be used as a supplement to the usual history of nursing textbooks, it includes, as the author states in the preface, "excerpts from the most significant writings comprising the history of nursing from the era before the birth of Christ up to the founding of the first professional school of nursing in ...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri (West), Mumbai D Schweitzer was a French-German scholar, born in Kaysersberg, Alsace; a s ickly chi ld , in contrast to h is la ter extraordinary robustness. Without doubt, he was a great and multiface...

Rethinking Reverence for Life

Albert Schweitzer's ethics of reverence for life is more complex and interesting than fIrst appears. It contains themes relevant to contemporary environmental ethics, including a virtue-ethics approach that emphasizes personal responsibility and tolerance, empathy for living organisms, and the fundamental unity of life. Not surprising, then, Schweitzer has recently been acknowledged for pioneer...

Cholera Management and Prevention at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Haiti

In October 2010, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti treated some of the first patients with cholera in Haiti. Over the following 10 months, a strategic plan was developed and implemented to improve the management of cases at the hospital level and to address the underlying risk factors at the community level.

The Well-Tempered Savage: Albert Schweitzer, Music, and Imperial Deafness