Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Albert Schweitzer

  • Book review: Civilization and the Culture of Science

    Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, United Kingdom   Cover of Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795–1935 by Stephen Gaukroger. The word civilization has both Latin and French origins: civitas (city) and civis (citizen) in Latin, and civilise (civilized) in French. In 1923, physician, philosopher, and theologian Albert Schweitzer wrote…

  • All life is a gift

    “I am tired,” said Mr. Hale. “I’m fifty-five years of age, and that little fact of itself accounts for any loss of strength.” “Nonsense! I’m upward of sixty and feel no strength, either bodily or mental. Don’t let me hear you talking so. Fifty-five! Why, you’re quite a young man.” Elisabeth Gaskell, North and South,…

  • Albert Schweitzer: physician philosopher

      “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Albert Schweitzer Helen Kiddell, 1950–1959 Wellcome Library, London, England In a different world Albert Schweitzer would have been a saint, painted by Uccello or Bellini with angels in the desert,…