Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Language:	English
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.
Subject:	Missions, Medical -- Asia. Missions, Medical -- Africa. Missions and Missionaries -- Africa -- History. Missions and Missionaries -- Asia -- History. Christianity -- Africa -- History. Christianity -- Asia -- History. History, 19th Century -- Africa. History, 19th Century -- Asia. History, 20th Century -- Africa. History, 20th Century -- Asia. Missions, Medical. Africa. Asia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154595

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Other authors / contributors:	Hardiman, David.
ISBN:	9781429480918 1429480912 9789401203630 9401203636 9042021063 9789042021068
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Healing bodies, saving souls. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9789042021068 9042021063

Table of 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.

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