Der Medicus by Noah Gordon
››› Free download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Der Medicus ISBN: 3442437687 ISBN13: 9783442437689 Autor: Noah Gordon Rating: 4.8 of 5 stars (376) counts Original Format: Paperback, 695 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, DJVU, iBook. Published: September 1997 / by Goldmann / (first published 1986) Language: German Genre(s): Historical Fiction- 650 users Fiction- 245 users Historical- 166 users Historical Fiction >Medieval- 46 users
Description: alternate-cover edition: here Rob Jeremy Cole ist gerade neun Jahre alt, als er im Jahre 1021 von einem fahrenden Bader als Gehilfe angenommen wird. Dieser ist nicht nur ein Genie, was den Verkauf seiner Elixiere und das Behandeln verschiedenster Leiden anbetrifft, sondern auch ein großer Lebenskünstler. Der Bader lehrt Rob jedoch nicht nur die Grundlagen der Heilkunst, sondern auch die Furcht vor der katholischen Kircher, da Bader in jenen Tagen häufig als Hexer auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt wurden. Eines Tages hört Rob von der berühmten medizinischen Akademie in Isfahan und beschließt, nach Persien zu pilgern und Arzt zu werden. Doch seine Reise dorthin dauert Jahre, und schließlich verbringt er lange Zeit als "Jude" unter den islamischen Einwohnern Isfahans, bevor er als ausgebildeter Medicus wieder nach England zurückkehrt.
About Author:
Noah Gordon is an American novelist. Some of the topics covered within his novels include medical history and medical ethics. More recently he has begun to focus more on themes relating to the Inquisition, and Jewish cultural history. His novel Shaman won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1993. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Other Editions:
- The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)
- The Physician (The Cole Trilogy, 1)
- El médico (Paperback)
- El médico (Cole Family Trilogy #1)
- Der Medicus (Cole-Trilogie, #1)
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- Matters of Choice (Cole Family Trilogy, #3)
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Rewiews:
May 26, 2011 Jeanette"Astute Crabbist" Rated it: it was amazing Shelves: historical-fiction, five-star-fiction, middle-east, europe-and-british-isles, all-fiction This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read in a long time. One of my rare six-star selections. There's a consistency of quality from cover to cover, owing to the perfect marriage of fine writing and graceful editing. Rob J. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. He stays true to that calling, even when surrounded by other physicians who are motivated by greed and glory. He risks and sacrifices all for the chance to study in Persia with Ibn Sina, the greatest physician of the 11t This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read in a long time. One of my rare six-star selections. There's a consistency of quality from cover to cover, owing to the perfect marriage of fine writing and graceful editing. Rob J. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. He stays true to that calling, even when surrounded by other physicians who are motivated by greed and glory. He risks and sacrifices all for the chance to study in Persia with Ibn Sina, the greatest physician of the 11th century. The story is especially fulfilling because it comes full circle. Rob returns to London after many years in foreign lands. Through comparison with those who have never left home, he realizes how he has grown in compassion, tolerance, and critical thinking. He's so far ahead of the doctors around him that he doesn't fit in, but he does finally find a place where he can put down roots and be surrounded by a loving family and community. This is a sweet relief for him after having been an orphan and an outsider since the age of nine. I read the final paragraph of the book three times in a row with tears in my eyes. There are no spoilers in it, so here is that paragraph: "As the seasons slipped by, only one thing was constant. The extra sense, the healer's sensitivity, never abandoned him. Whether he was called lonely in the night to a bedside or hurried of a morning into the crowded dispensary, he could always feel their pain. Hastening to struggle with it, he never failed to know--as he had known from the first day in the maristan--a rush of wondering gratitude that he was chosen, that it was he whom God's hand had reached out and touched, and
that such an opportunity to minister and serve should have been given to Barber's boy." That sense of duty, of being one chosen to ease suffering, has completely disappeared from the practice of modern medicine. That is a tragedy beyond reckoning. 68 likes 3 comments
