Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa

Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late—1800s to the 1960s. 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 ...