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The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier(University of Chicago Geography Research Papers)

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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.


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.

Review :
"Enlivened by numerous biographical profiles . . . and drawing upon a painstaking reading of archival records and missionary journals, The Steamer Parish makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the contemporary crisis of public health care systems in Central Africa."--Giacomo Macola "Journal of African History" "This splendidly written and meticulously researched volume presents a fascinating case study and critique of the medical activities of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Malawi over the eighty-year period from 1885 to 1964. . . The Steamer Parish represents historical medical geography at its finest. Charles Good not only carries his readers back to the issues of a long-ago era in Africa, but also casts them in the context of current relevance. As a result, his superbly crafted work will be of great value to many."--Pascal James Imperato "African Studies Review"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226302812
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 23 mm
  • No of Pages: 440
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: University of Chicago Geography Research Papers
  • Sub Title: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier
  • Width: 16 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0226302814
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 822 gr


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