Transnationalism in Missionary Medicine

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" Transnationalism in Missionary Medicine "
Margo S. Gewurtz

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083506
Doc. No	:	LA127135
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03001001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Margo S. Gewurtz
Title & Author	:	Transnationalism in Missionary Medicine [Article]\ Margo S. Gewurtz
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	30/1-2
Page No	:	30–43
Abstract	:	Kala-azar is a parasitic disease that was endemic in India, parts of Africa and China. During the first half of the twentieth century, developing means of treatment and identification of the host and transmission vectors for this deadly disease would be the subject of transnational research and controversy. In the formative period for this research, two Canadian Medical missionaries, Drs. Jean Dow and Ernest Struthers, pioneered work on Kala-azar in the North Henan Mission. The great international prestige of the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Indian Medical Service would stand against recognition of the clinical discoveries of missionary doctors in remote North Henan. It was only after Struthers forged personal relations with Dr. Lionel. E. Napier and his colleagues at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine that there was a meeting of minds to promote the hypothesis that the sand fly was the transmission vector. Kala-azar is a parasitic disease that was endemic in India, parts of Africa and China. During the first half of the twentieth century, developing means of treatment and identification of the host and transmission vectors for this deadly disease would be the subject of transnational research and controversy. In the formative period for this research, two Canadian Medical missionaries, Drs. Jean Dow and Ernest Struthers, pioneered work on Kala-azar in the North Henan Mission. The great international prestige of the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Indian Medical Service would stand against recognition of the clinical discoveries of missionary doctors in remote North Henan. It was only after Struthers forged personal relations with Dr. Lionel. E. Napier and his colleagues at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine that there was a meeting of minds to promote the hypothesis that the sand fly was the transmission vector.
Descriptor	:	British Indian Medical Service
Descriptor	:	Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine
Descriptor	:	Canadian Mission North Henan China
Descriptor	:	Kala-azar
Descriptor	:	knowledge networks
Descriptor	:	London School of Tropical Medicine
Descriptor	:	médecine missionnaire
Descriptor	:	Mission canadienne du Nord Hénan (Chine)
Descriptor	:	missionary medicine
Descriptor	:	réseaux scientifiques
Descriptor	:	sand fly vector
Descriptor	:	transmission par la mouche des sables
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03001001‬