Missionaries, African Patients, and Negotiating Missionary Medicine at Kalene Hospital, Zambia, 1906–1935.
Until recently, European medical missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were often portrayed as all-powerful heroes who plied their craft without being soiled by the cultural commerce of the people they encountered in imperial contexts. Such histories often cast colonial subjects as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 283 - 295 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2014
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