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Title Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa / edited by David Hardiman
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series The Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 80
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 80.
Contents Introduction / David Hardiman -- Seeking souls through the eyes of the blind: the birth of the Medical Missionary Society in nineteenth-century China / Michael C. Lazich -- Local voluntarism: the Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society in Hong Kong, 1842-1923 / Timothy Man-kong Wong -- Professionalising the rural medical mission in Weixian, 1890-1925 / John R. Stanley -- Christian therapy: medical missionaries and the adivasis of western India, 1880-1930 / David Hardiman -- Colonialism, cannabis and the Christians: mission medical knowledge and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893-4 / James H. Mills -- African medical personnel of the universities' mission to central Africa in northern Rhodesia / Linda Beer Kumwenda -- 'A matter of vital importance': the place of the medical mission in maternal and child healthcare in Tanganyika, 1919-39 / Michael Jennings -- Curing bodies to rescue souls: health in Capuchin's missionary strategy in Eritrea, 1894-1935 / Uoldelul Chelati Dinar -- The social dimensions of Christian leprosy work among Muslims: American missionaries and young patients in colonial northern Nigeria, 1920-40 / Shobana Shankar -- Administering leprosy control in Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1945-67: a case study in government-mission relations / John Manton
Summary Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor - exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer - exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, few historians have examined the history of this important aspect of the missionary movement. This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial terri
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index
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Subject Missions, Medical -- Asia
Missions, Medical -- Africa
Missions and Missionaries -- history
Christianity -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Missions, Medical
Ă„rztliche Mission
Medische zending.
SUBJECT Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349
Asia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001208
Subject Africa
Asia
Afrika
Asien
Form Electronic book
Author Hardiman, David
ISBN 9781429480918
1429480912
9789401203630
9401203636