Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa / edited by David Hardiman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardiman, David.

Series:

Wellcome series in the history of medicine

Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 80.

The Wellcome series in the history of medicine

Clio medica ; 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions, Medical--Asia.

Missions, Medical.

Missions, Medical--Africa.

Africa.

Asia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

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Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

System Details:

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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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Healing bodies, saving souls.

ISBN:

9781429480918

1429480912

9789401203630

9401203636

OCLC:

166335231

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