Missionaries And Their Medicine

Author : David Hardiman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611917X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missionaries and their medicine written by David Hardiman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. The study is informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that they created for themselves their own form of ‘Christian modernity.’ The book provides a major intervention in the history of colonial medicine, as Hardiman argues that missionary medicine had a specific quality of its own – which he describes and analyses in detail – and that in most cases it was preferred to the medicine of colonial states. He also examines the period of transition to Indian independence, which was a highly fraught and uncertain process for the missionaries.

Author : Richard J. Ingebretsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615439440
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missionary Medicine written by Richard J. Ingebretsen and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a simple health guide for LDS missionaries

Author : Bruce Steffes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615268767
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Missions written by Bruce Steffes and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook designed to prepare medical personnel for the challenges of short-term and long-term medical missions

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203636
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Bodies, Saving Souls written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.LR/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Missions written by John Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774824344
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 written by Bridie Andrews and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

Author : Elizabeth Graham
Publisher : Peter Martin Associates Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine Man to Missionary written by Elizabeth Graham and published by Peter Martin Associates Limited. This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a thesis prepared at University of Toronto. Through missionary and government reports, letters, and diaries of the period, the author traces the movements of various Indian groups and analyzes some of the elements involved in the change from relative independence to isolation in reserve communities.

Author : John Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Missions written by John Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbra Mann Wall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572886
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Into Africa written by Barbra Mann Wall and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing Awarded first place in the 2016 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in the History and Public Policy category The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth century has occurred in Africa, where Catholic missions have played major roles. But these missions did more than simply convert Africans. Catholic sisters became heavily involved in the Church’s health services and eventually in relief and social justice efforts. In Into Africa, Barbra Mann Wall offers a transnational history that reveals how Catholic medical and nursing sisters established relationships between local and international groups, sparking an exchange of ideas that crossed national, religious, gender, and political boundaries. Both a nurse and a historian, Wall explores this intersection of religion, medicine, gender, race, and politics in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the years following World War II, a period when European colonial rule was ending and Africans were building new governments, health care institutions, and education systems. She focuses specifically on hospitals, clinics, and schools of nursing in Ghana and Uganda run by the Medical Mission Sisters of Philadelphia; in Nigeria and Uganda by the Irish Medical Missionaries of Mary; in Tanzania by the Maryknoll Sisters of New York; and in Nigeria by a local Nigerian congregation. Wall shows how, although initially somewhat ethnocentric, the sisters gradually developed a deeper understanding of the diverse populations they served. In the process, their medical and nursing work intersected with critical social, political, and cultural debates that continue in Africa today: debates about the role of women in their local societies, the relationship of women to the nursing and medical professions and to the Catholic Church, the obligations countries have to provide care for their citizens, and the role of women in human rights. A groundbreaking contribution to the study of globalization and medicine, Into Africa highlights the importance of transnational partnerships, using the stories of these nuns to enhance the understanding of medical mission work and global change.

Author : Walter Russell Lambuth
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230465654
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Missions written by Walter Russell Lambuth and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... FROM CANDIDATE TO MISSIONARY I. The Call Carlyle has said, "Blessed is the man that hath found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness." The call to a life work on the foreign field--what constitutes it? This question is perplexing the minds of a large number of earnest men and women in colleges, universities, theological seminaries and medical schools. It is sheer mockery for any student to look for an answer to the question who does not genuinely purpose to live a life of the largest possible usefulness. But where that purpose directs the question, any honest seeker may learn whether or not he is "called" to missionary service. What are the factors in such a call? The need constitutes one factor in the call. It is the first thing that impresses a man who studies the condition of the non-Christian world. It is the first impression, the most lasting and the most urgent. One cannot escape the appalling fact that millions of his fellow beings are sick unto death, without medicine, without surgery, without hospitals, without doctors, without nurses, and, in addition, are deprived of the gospel of good cheer. The desire to meet the need is a second factor in the call. The impulse is God-given. To realize the need of suffering humanity is but to create an insistent desire, in the heart of every true Christian, to relieve that need. To do less is to be lacking in a sense of gratitude to God, and to be untrue to the obligation to give our fellow men what we have ourselves received. The judgment of those who know the candidate best, his qualification and disqualification, together with the demands of the field and of the service to be rendered--all enter into the final decision. A personal commitment to the will of God is the most important...