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The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African

The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier Paperback / softback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by C.M. Good

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Paperback / softback. New. In the mid 1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities Mission to Central Africa, bringing education, medical care and the Church to rural Africans. This work traces the mission's history and its lasting impact on public health care in South Central Africa.
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  • Title The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier
  • Author C.M. Good
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2004-01-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780226302829
  • ISBN 9780226302829 / 0226302822
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 1.08 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 2.74 cm)
  • 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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From the rear cover

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.

About the author

Charles M. Good Jr. is a professor emeritus of geography at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of The Community in African Primary Health Care and Ethnomedical Systems in Africa.

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