A handbook designed to prepare medical personnel for the challenges of short-term and long-term medical missions

Sent to Heal! traces the development of medical missions, one of the most intriguing, complex, and controversial phenomena in the history of the encounter of We

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor – exemp

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.--Scholar's Choice