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The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier Volume 244 Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Charles M. Good
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Christian missions profoundly aided Europe's imperial expansion into Africa.
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In the mid-1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). Inspired by Dr. David Livingstone, they felt a special calling to bring the Church, education, and medical care to rural Africans. To deliver services across a huge, remote area, the UMCA relied on steamer ships that were sent from England and then reassembled on Lake Malawi. By the mid-1920s, the UMCA had built a chain of mission stations that spread across four hundred miles. In The Steamer Parish, Charles M. Good Jr. traces the Mission's history and its lasting impact on public health care in south-central Africa-and shows how steam and medicine, together with theology, allowed the Mission to impose its will, indelibly, on hundreds of thousands of people. What's more, many of the issues he discusses-rural development, the ecological history of disease, and competition between western and traditional medicine-are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.
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- Title The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier Volume 244
- Author Charles M. Good
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 440
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date January 10, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226302812 / 0226302814
- Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.4 x 1.32 in (23.52 x 16.26 x 3.35 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Central Africa
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Universities' Mission to Central Africa -, Missionaries, Medical - Africa, Central -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003016362
- Dewey Decimal Code 610.690
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The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier (Volume 244) (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers)
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