Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Language:English
Series:The Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 80
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 80.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154595
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Other authors / contributors:Hardiman, David.
ISBN:9781429480918
1429480912
9789401203630
9401203636
9042021063
9789042021068
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index.
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Summary: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 terri.
Other form:Print version: Healing bodies, saving souls. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9789042021068 9042021063