Medical Orders: Catholic and Protestant Missionary Medicine in the Belgian Congo 1880-1940
The history of religious missions and the provisioning of western medical care in the region that was known as the Congo Free State and later the Belgian Congo reveals the complicated dynamics between competing religious missions vis à vis the Belgian colonial state. This essay highlights divisions between identities and purposes of different religious groups in medical care provisioning, focusing on the divide between the Catholic and Protestant churches. Because most Protestant missions in the Congo were American or British, the medical care provided by the Protestant church was outside of,... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0165-0505 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10309 |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-1994272791 |
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Datenquelle: | Online Contents Benelux; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10309
http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10309 |
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