Missionary Medicine

Missionary Medicine

Author: Richard J. Ingebretsen

Publisher:

Published: 2011-05-25

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780615439440

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This is a simple health guide for LDS missionaries


Medical Missions

Medical Missions

Author: Bruce Steffes

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 9780615268767

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A handbook designed to prepare medical personnel for the challenges of short-term and long-term medical missions


Healing Bodies, Saving Souls

Healing Bodies, Saving Souls

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9401203636

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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 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. Leprosy, often a feature of such work, is explored, as well as the ways in which local people perceived disease, healing and the missionaries themselves. Also discussed is the important contribution of women towards mission medical work. Healing Bodies, Saving Souls will be of interest not only to students and historians but also the wider reader as it aims to define the place of missionary within the overall history of medicine.


Missionaries and their medicine

Missionaries and their medicine

Author: David Hardiman

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 152611917X

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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.


The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

Author: Bridie Andrews

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0774824344

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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.


Nicholas Black Elk

Nicholas Black Elk

Author: Michael F. Steltenkamp

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0806183667

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Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others. Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic shows that the holy-man was not the dispirited traditionalist commonly depicted in literature, but a religious thinker whose outlook was positive and whose spirituality was not limited solely to traditional Lakota precepts. Combining in-depth biography with its cultural context, the author depicts a more complex Black Elk than has previously been known: a world traveler who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn yet lived through the beginning of the atomic age. Steltenkamp draws on published and unpublished material to examine closely the last fifty years of Black Elk’s life—the period often overlooked by those who write and think of him only as a nineteenth-century figure. In the process, the author details not just Black Elk’s life but also the creation of his life story by earlier writers, and its influence on the Indian revitalization movement of the late twentieth century. Nicholas Black Elk explores how a holy-man’s diverse life experiences led to his synthesis of Native and Christian religious practice. The first book to follow Black Elk’s lifelong spiritual journey—from medicine man to missionary and mystic—Steltenkamp’s work provides a much-needed corrective to previous interpretations of this special man’s life story. This biography will lead general readers and researchers alike to rediscover both the man and the rich cultural tradition of his people.


Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

Author: Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 3031271289

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This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.


The Principles and Practice of Health Evangelism

The Principles and Practice of Health Evangelism

Author: Elvin Adams MD MPH

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1663235910

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This book presents the most effective method of combining the elements of a healthful lifestyle and the Christian gospel. Jesus saves your body as well as your soul. Discover the principles of divine behavior change. These principles have activated sedentary church congregations into a high level of health ministry to their community.