Missionaries and their medicine : a Christian modernity for tribal India
著者
書誌事項
Missionaries and their medicine : a Christian modernity for tribal India
（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, c2008
- : pbk
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注記
"This paperback edition first published 2014"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-254) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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. -- .
目次
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 -- .
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