Medicine and Scottish missionaries in the Northern Malawi Region 1875-1930 : quests for health in a colonial society / Markku Hokkanen ; with a foreword by Megan Vaughan.

Lewiston, N.Y. ; Lampeter : Edwin Mellen Press, [2007], ©2007.

viii, 647 pages : color maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-632) and index.

Pre-colonial northern Malawi, colonial conquest and the Livingstonia mission -- Missionaries and medicine in the Victorian Scottish missionary scene -- Medical mission in Livingstonia, 1875-1930 -- Quests for missionary health, 1875-1900 -- Early therapeutic encounters, exchanges and dialogues, 1875-c.1900 -- Holistic health and "regeneration" of African people and societies, 1875-1930 -- Missionaries, Christians and African healers, 1875-1930 -- Exchanges, middles and networks : negotiations for therapy in the mission hospitals, 1900-1930 -- Public health, hygiene and colonialism, 1890-1930 -- Quests for health in an African church, 1900-1930.