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When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties faced by those who lived there, Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman, Grenfell became part of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Raising funds in Canada and the United States, he founded a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day. In 1908, the story of his survival after a night marooned on a drifting patch of ice transformed him into a popular hero. He eventually became one of the most successful lecturers of his time. Ronald Rompkey tells the story of Grenfell's education, his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues of hygiene and public health. Above all, Rompkey shows that Grenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary to become a cultural politician who intervened in a colonial culture. Grenfell of Labrador provides a vivid picture of the man himself and the social movements through which he worked.

Missionaries, Medical --- Missions, Medical --- Social reformers --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions --- Medical missionaries --- Reformers --- History. --- Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, --- Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission --- Grenfell Mission

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Ophthalmologists --- Anti-apartheid activists --- Missionaries, Medical --- Missions, Medical --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions --- Medical missionaries --- Civil rights workers --- Oculists --- Ophthalmology --- Physicians --- Sutter, Erika. --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Sutter, Erika --- Staat Südafrika.

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There is a great need for healing in Africa. This need is in itself no different elsewhere in the world, but it is greatly determined by the involvement of religious communities and traditions. Faith communities and religious institutions play a major role in assisting African believers to find health, healing and completeness in everyday life.

Spiritual healing --- Healing --- Traditional medicine --- Missions, Medical --- Holy Spirit. --- Reformed Church --- Calvinism. --- Quality of life. --- Religious aspects. --- Christianity. --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Reformed Protestantism --- Congregationalism --- Reformation --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Arminianism --- Puritans --- Zwinglianism --- Holy Ghost --- Paraclete --- Pneumatology (Theology) --- Spirit, Holy --- God (Christianity) --- Spirit --- Trinity --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Miracles --- Doctrines --- Religious aspects --- Christian spirituality & religious experience --- Africa --- discourses on health --- African traditional healing --- missionary medicine --- HIV/AIDS in Africa --- discourse --- Church-based healing --- reformed pneumatology --- spirit and healing --- rationality --- transformation

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Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800's to the 1960's. 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 territories – whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum. Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures. Leprosy, often a feature of such work, is explored, as well as the ways in which local people perceived disease, healing and the missionaries themselves. Also discussed is the important contribution of women towards mission medical work. Healing Bodies, Saving Souls will be of interest not only to students and historians but also the wider reader as it aims to define the place of missionary within the overall history of medicine.

History of Asia --- History of human medicine --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1999 --- S21/0400 --- S21/0500 --- S13B/0200 --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Western medicine --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc. --- China: Christianity--General works --- Christianity -- history -- Africa. --- Christianity -- history -- Asia. --- History, 19th Century -- Africa. --- Missions and Missionaries -- history -- Africa. --- Missions and Missionaries -- history -- Asia. --- Missions, Medical -- Africa. --- Missions, Medical -- Asia. --- History, 19th Century --- Christianity --- History, 20th Century --- Religion --- History, Modern 1601 --- -History --- Humanities --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc --- Missions, Medical --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions

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In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows how the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the twenty-first century. Uncovering where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century and focusing on Ghana provides an opportunity to challenge narrow approaches.

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