Missionaries and their medicine | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780719095399 | Missionaries and their medicine | David Hardiman | Taschenbuch | 2014

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. The Bhils
3. The mission to the Bhils
4. The great famine
5. The conversion of the Bhagats
6. Christian healing
7. Fighting demons
8. Woman's work for woman
9. A little empire
10. Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer
11. A mission for a postcolonial era
12. Medical modernity
13. Closure
14. Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernity
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Studies in Imperialism
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780719095399
ISBN-10:	0719095395
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hardiman, David
Hersteller:	Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	David Hardiman
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.08.2014
Gewicht:	0,43 kg