By David Hardiman (Editor)
Missionary medication flourished in the course of the interval of excessive eu imperialism, from the late-1800s to the Nineteen Sixties. even though the determine of challenge medical professional - exemplified through David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer - exercised a strong impression at the Western mind's eye throughout the 19th and early-twentieth centuries, few historians have tested the background of this significant element of the missionary circulation. This choice of articles on Asia and Africa makes use of the large files that exist on scientific missions to either enhance and problem current histories of the health center in colonial territories even if of the dispensary, the clinic, the maternity domestic or leprosy asylum. many of the significant subject matters addressed inside of comprise the perspective of other Christian denominations in the direction of clinical undertaking paintings, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries have been drawn into contentious neighborhood politics, and their perspective in the direction of supernatural remedies. Leprosy, usually a characteristic of such paintings, is explored, in addition to the ways that area people perceived affliction, therapeutic and the missionaries themselves. additionally mentioned is the $64000 contribution of girls in the direction of challenge scientific paintings. therapeutic our bodies, Saving Souls might be of curiosity not just to scholars and historians but in addition the broader reader because it goals to outline where of missionary in the total heritage of drugs. Contents record of Illustrations Acknowledgements David HARDIMAN: advent Michael C. LAZICH: looking Souls in the course of the Eyes of the Blind: The beginning of the clinical Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century China Timothy MAN-KONG WONG: neighborhood Voluntarism: The clinical venture of the London Missionary Society in Hong Kong, 1842 1923 John R. STANLEY: Professionalising the agricultural scientific venture in Weixian, 1890 1925 David HARDIMAN: Christian treatment: clinical Missionaries and the Adivasis of Western India, 1880 1930 James H. generators: Colonialism, hashish and the Christians: project clinical Kn
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Although he had little enthusiasm for day-to-day healing, he was keen to contribute to knowledge about Africa through medical observation, and he continued to be willing to treat cases that he felt had scientific importance. He wrote up and published his findings in this and other respects, and propounded them on his lecture tours, in the process reaching a wide and highly receptive medical audience. In common with most other Victorian missionaries, Livingstone believed that there were physiological differences between Europeans and Africans that could be attributed to the ‘excess’ sexuality of the black.
176 In much of Africa, by contrast, there was minimal indigenisation at this level during the colonial period. Although it took time for indigenous Christians to train as doctors and take over the medical work of the missions, medical missions depended on indigenous medical assistants from the start. In the early years, these were normally trained on the job, and they lacked any formal qualification. Missions began to establish special training centres for such people from the late nineteenth century onwards.
Students received a diploma after four years which enabled them to become ‘Medical Evangelists’. 177 Such positions were, ideally, reserved for Christian converts, as the aim was to have a thoroughly Christian staff. It was not always easy, however, to ensure this, and non-Christians were not infrequently employed on pragmatic grounds. 178 In Africa, the missions found it hard during the early years to recruit local people in such a role, as the work was regarded as lowly and demeaning. 10 ‘An anxious mother brings her baby to St Luke’s Hospital, Hiranpur.