Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006. |
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| Description: | 348 p. : ill., ports. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 80 Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 80. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6276458 |
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.
