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Author: David Hardiman Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 152611917X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
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: David Hardiman Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 152611917X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
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: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9401203636 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
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: Bridie Andrews Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774824344 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 317
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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: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 152
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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: Walter Russell Lambuth Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230465654 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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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...