Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 679 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
Medical Missions in Asia and Africa
Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 679 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
ISBN: 978-90-420-2106-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
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.
Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
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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