Synopsis

Quaker philosopher/historian – and a global authority on diseases communicable from animals to people – Calvin W. Schwabe has been a long-term advisor to the U.N.’s World Health Organization, as well as consultant to a number of countries on disease investigation and control. He was an early researcher on the pathophysiology and biochemistry of parasites and chaired departments of tropical diseases and epidemiology in schools of veterinary medicine, human medicine, and public health in the U.S. and abroad.

This independently-published study reflects upon “an inwardly satisfying life in which science and Quakerism reinforce one another as sources of inspiration and outlets for service.” Five years earlier Schwabe authored the similarly-themed Pendle Hill pamphlet Quakerism and Science (PHP #343).