Ten Fingers for God: The Complete Biography of Dr. Paul Brand

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Synopsis
Ten Fingers for God describes the extraordinary servanthood--the life of Dr. Paul Brand, a medical doctor, whose life and work have been a blessing to countless thousands of leprosy victims on five continents. Through surgeries (over 3,000 in India alone), the pioneering research he has conducted and inspired, and his empathy for the poor and forsaken. Dr. Brand has achieved fame in the medical world. Dr. Brand's professional life has centered on perhaps the most problematic aspect of creation, the existence of pain. His conviction that the function of pain in the human body is a disguised blessing to the human race. He felt that "God designed the human body so that it is able to survive because of pain. As a surgeon, teacher, and environmentalist. Dr. Brand 'has chosen the middle way of balancing the material and the mystical, the prophetic and the pragmatic. His spirit of self-sacrifice and humility can best be distilled by his sureness that "it is a pity that a man has only one life to spend, one pair of feet, two hands, ten fingers! Paul Brand is an adventure loving, highly spiritual surgeon who discovers his life's calling is to improve the hands and feet of people with leprosy worldwide. He developed techniques for returning functionality to disfigured, numb hands and feet and goes on to establish centers where patients receive protective shoes and learn skills to become employable. Paul both teaches others in many countries to help in his mission and learns from other doctors, scientists and rehabilitation specialists. In his travels and impassioned, informative speeches he raises awareness of this disease which is only contagious for a brief time and inspires people to pool their resources to improve care for a population ending their generations old fate of being shunned, ostracized and forced to beg for their survival.
Copyright:
1983

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
275 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780840758347
Publisher:
Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Biographies and Memoirs, Medicine
Submitted By:
Sister M. Dolores Dean
Proofread By:
Lori C.
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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