Healing Bodies, Saving Souls

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"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."--Back

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Other Editions

• Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa (Clio Medica 80) (The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine)HardcoverEditions Rodopi BV2006-11-30
• Healing Bodies, Saving SoulsRodopi B.V. Editions2006-01-01