Healing Bodies, Saving Souls

Medical Missions in Asia and Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-2106-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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 territories – whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum.
Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures.
Leprosy, often a feature of such work, is explored, as well as the ways in which local people perceived disease, healing and the missionaries themselves. Also discussed is the important contribution of women towards mission medical work.
Healing Bodies, Saving Souls will be of interest not only to students and historians but also the wider reader as it aims to define the place of missionary within the overall history of medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hardiman, David

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

David HARDIMAN: Introduction

Michael C. LAZICH: Seeking Souls through the Eyes of the Blind: The Birth of the Medical Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century China

Timothy MAN-KONG WONG: Local Voluntarism: The Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society in Hong Kong, 1842–1923

John R. STANLEY: Professionalising the Rural Medical Mission in Weixian, 1890–1925

David HARDIMAN: Christian Therapy: Medical Missionaries and the Adivasis of Western India, 1880–1930

James H. MILLS: Colonialism, Cannabis and the Christians: Mission Medical Knowledge and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–4

Linda Beer KUMWENDA: African Medical Personnel of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in Northern Rhodesia

Michael JENNINGS: ‘A Matter of Vital Importance’: The Place of the Medical Mission in Maternal and Child Healthcare in Tanganyika, 1919–39

Uoldelul Chelati DIRAR: Curing Bodies to Rescue Souls: Health in Capuchin’s Missionary Strategy in Eritrea, 1894–1935

Shobana SHANKAR: The Social Dimensions of Christian Leprosy Work among Muslims: American Missionaries and Young Patients in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1920–40

John MANTON: Administering Leprosy Control in Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1945–67: A Case Study in Government–Mission Relations

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. He carried out his doctoral research on modern Indian history at the University of Sussex, the thesis being published as Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917–1934 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981). He worked for many years in India at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, and is the author of The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996), Gandhi in His Time and Ours (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003), and Histories for the Subordinated (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2006). He is a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and has published several articles in Subaltern Studies, and edited one of the volumes.