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Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa /
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-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 80. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 terri. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429480918 1429480912 9789401203630 9401203636 |
| ISSN: | 0045-7183 ; |