Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa / / edited by David Hardiman.
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800's to the 1960's. Although the figure of mission doctor – exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer – exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteent...
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| Superior document: | The Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 80. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (355 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / David Hardiman
- List of Illustrations / David Hardiman
- Acknowledgements / David Hardiman
- 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 Dirar
- 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 on Contributors / David Hardiman
- Index / David Hardiman.