Healing Bodies, Saving Souls

David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. He carried out his doctoral research on modern Indian history at the University of Sussex, the thesis being published as Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917–1934 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981). He worked for many years in India at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, and is the author of The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996), Gandhi in His Time and Ours (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003), and Histories for the Subordinated (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2006). He is a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and has published several articles in Subaltern Studies, and edited one of the volumes.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsDavid HARDIMAN: IntroductionMichael C. LAZICH: Seeking Souls through the Eyes of the Blind: The Birth of the Medical Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century ChinaTimothy MAN-KONG WONG: Local Voluntarism: The Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society in Hong Kong, 1842–1923John R. STANLEY: Professionalising the Rural Medical Mission in Weixian, 1890–1925David HARDIMAN: Christian Therapy: Medical Missionaries and the Adivasis of Western India, 1880–1930James H. MILLS: Colonialism, Cannabis and the Christians: Mission Medical Knowledge and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–4Linda Beer KUMWENDA: African Medical Personnel of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in Northern RhodesiaMichael JENNINGS: ‘A Matter of Vital Importance’: The Place of the Medical Mission in Maternal and Child Healthcare in Tanganyika, 1919–39Uoldelul Chelati DIRAR: Curing Bodies to Rescue Souls: Health in Capuchin’s Missionary Strategy in Eritrea, 1894–1935Shobana SHANKAR: The Social Dimensions of Christian Leprosy Work among Muslims: American Missionaries and Young Patients in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1920–40John MANTON: Administering Leprosy Control in Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1945–67: A Case Study in Government–Mission RelationsNotes on ContributorsIndex

"The articles here are of a consistently high standard, and form a stimulating and rewarding collection Healing bodies, saving souls is a welcome contribution that demonstrates the many fresh insights that can be gained from the proper use and analysis of missionary sources. It will be of considerable value to students, specialists, and generalists alike, and it provides a firm basis for future work…"– in: Medical History 51/4 (2007), pp. 547-551"[E]specially valuable to scholars of the specific regions discussed, yet also to students and anyone seeking an indication of the breadth of missionary medicine’s influence in the 19th and 20th centuries… a noteworthy contribution to the field."– in: Wellcome History 37 (Spring 2008)