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Towards a History of Medical Missions

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HardimanDavid (ed.), Healing bodies, saving souls: medical missions in Asia and Africa, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 80, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2006, pp. 348, illus., €72.00, $97.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2106-8).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2012

Alex Mckay
Alex Mckay
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International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Medical History , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , 01 October 2007 , pp. 547 - 551
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References

1 On which see C A Bayly, Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India, 1780–1870, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

2 Albert Craig, A Scot in Sikkim, Edinburgh, Board of World Mission and Unity, n.d., p. 10.

3 Rosemary Fitzgerald, ‘“Clinical Christianity”: the emergence of medical work as a missionary strategy in colonial India, 1800–1914’, in Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds), Health, medicine and empire: perspectives on colonial India, London, Sangam Books, 2001, pp. 88–136.

4 See, for example, Andrew Porter, Religion versus empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700–1914, Manchester University Press, 2004.

5 See Wim van Spengen, ‘Early Pentecostal missionary activity along the Sino-Tibetan border. The P.M.U. 1912–1924’; paper read at the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bonn, 2006.