Beschreibung:
Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964.
1. Introduction2. The Bhils3. The mission to the Bhils4. The great famine5. The conversion of the Bhagats6. Christian healing7. Fighting demons8. Woman's work for woman9. A little empire10. Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer11. A mission for a postcolonial era12. Medical modernity13. Closure14. Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernityBibliographyIndex