Into Africa : a transnational history of Catholic medical missions and social change /

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Author / Creator:Wall, Barbra Mann, author.
Imprint:New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:xvii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Catholic Church -- Missions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Catholic Church.
Katholische Kirche.
Religious Missions -- Africa South of the Sahara.
Missions, Medical -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical personnel -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women missionaries -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical care -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical care.
Medical personnel.
Missions.
Missions, Medical.
Women missionaries.
Krankenpflege.
Mission.
Nonne.
Krankenschwester.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Ghana.
Nigeria.
Uganda.
Tansania.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10385527
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ISBN:9780813566221 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813566223 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813566238 (e-book (web pdf))
0813566231 (e-book (web pdf))
9780813572888 (e-book (epub))
0813572886 (e-book (epub))
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Medical Missions in Context
  • 2. Nursing, Medicine, and Mission in Ghana
  • 3. Shifting Mission in Rural Tanzania
  • 4. Catholic Medical Missions and Transnational Engagement in Nigeria
  • 5. Transnational Collaboration in Primary Health Care
  • 6. Appraising Women Religious and Their Mission Work
  • Notes
  • Index