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Title:
Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa
Author:
Hardiman, David.
ISBN:
9789042021068
Publication Information:
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006.
Physical Description:
348 s. : res.
Series:
The Wellcome series in the history of medicine.

Clio medica, 80.
Series Title:
The Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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.
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