Leo Eloesser, M. D.: Eulogy for a Free Spirit Tapa dura - 1982

New York: Philosophical Library, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Philosophical Library, New York, 1982. First Edition. Very Good Condition/Good. Nonfiction Black cloth covers. -- Light slant to binding; otherwise a clean, tight copy. Dust jacket worn. -- Overall Very Good Condition in a Good Dust Jacket. This volume records the life and contributions of a renowned San Francisco surgeon who dedicated himself to freeing others from poverty, pain, and oppression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 483 pages. Item Type: Nonfiction. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; Surgery; Biography; United States; 20th century; Medical Books (Scholarly); Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0802223982. ISBN/EAN: 9780802223982. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8476. . 9780802223982.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Philosophical Library, 1982. This is a biography of a San Francisco surgeon who led a remarkable life involving music, travel, medicine, and social causes; a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and surgeon at San Francisco Hospital, he was a pioneer in thoracic surgery; during World War I he was in charge of the surgical division of a large German Hospital until the American entrance into the war; in the 1920s he became a friend of the painter Diego Rivera and a lifelong confidant and medical adviser to Frida Kahlo, who later painted his portrait; in 1934 he went to the Soviet Union where he set up a ward for thoracic surgery at a clinic in Moscow; in 1937 he went to Spain with a medical unit attached to the Republican Army and performed surgery at a mobile hospital behind the front lines; in 1945 he went with the U.N. to China to train doctors in thoracic surgery and worked for four years with the Communists teaching hygiene and sanitation and training midwives; in the… Leer más