Conversionary sites : transforming medical aid and global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota /

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Based on immersive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halvorson, Britt (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Temas:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America > Missions > Madagascar.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Medical assistance, American > Madagascar.
Faith-based human services > Madagascar.
Faith-based human services > Minnesota.
Missions, Medical > Madagascar.
Missions, Medical > Social aspects.
Protestantism.
Religious Missions
Protestantism
Aide sanitaire américaine > Madagascar.
Services sociaux basés sur la foi > Madagascar.
Services sociaux basés sur la foi > Minnesota.
Missions médicales > Madagascar.
Missions médicales > Aspect social.
Protestantisme.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Faith-based human services
Medical assistance, American
Missions
Missions, Medical
Mission
Gesundheitswesen
Madagascar
Minnesota
Christianity.
Colonialism.
Faith based aid.
Global medicine.
Humanitarianism.
Madagascar.
Medical relief.
United States.
Value.
Waste economies.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: conversionary sites in global christianities
  • Remembering and forgetting through medical aid work
  • Becoming humanitarians: bodies multiple in communities of aid
  • Redeeming medical waste, making medical relief
  • Restructuring value in antananarivo
  • Translating aid, brokering identity: malagasy doctors as precarious heroes
  • Traversing shadow spaces of accountability
  • Conclusions: aid's end times.

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