Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2008
Summary
While volumes have been written about the Protestant missionary movement in China, scant attention has been paid to the role of nursing and nurses in these missions. Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, Healing Henan brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.
From the time Presbyterian (later United Church…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780774814003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0774814004 |
| Author: | Sonya Grypma |
| Publisher: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Imprint: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 165mm |
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Grypma constructs a historical account of Canadian nurses’ work in China while exploring the interplay of professional nursing with issues such as religion, gender, culture, health, and nation. […] Supported with excellent documentation and evidence, Healing Henan is well-written and exciting reading, and it sheds new light on the significance of the efforts by nurses and doctors in a Chinese province. The book also provides the reader with a close view of the ambitions, struggles, and accomplishments of Canadian nurses in Henan, and it will appeal to anyone interested in the history of religious nursing. - Anne Marie Overgaard (Nursing History Review, 2009) The author, Associate Professor of Nursing at Trinity Western University, left no research stone unturned […]. Dr. Sonya Grypma brought to life the character and personality of the nurses, the nature and importance of their work, their length of service, and the impact of their work. There has been little written about nursing in China. Most history has been dedicated to individual profiles instead of unified efforts by a group of professionals. The author has changed that in this book. The publication should be of interest to students of Chinese history, nursing history, and especially to medical missionaries that are planning a clinic, hospital, or short-term medical team to an undeveloped field. - William L. Capps (Missiology, An International Review) This ambitiously titled and carefully worked study by Sonya Grypma, a historian of nursing, documents a period in the history of medical missions in China involving Canadian nurses working in Henan who were members of the so-called North China Mission of the former Presbyterian Church (since 1925, the United Church) of Canada.[…] Grypma is to be thanked for lifting such a veil of forgetting, giving names and (by inserting photographs) faces to the otherwise anonymous nurses, Canadian mainly, but also Chinese. - Christoffer H. Grundmann (International Bulletin of Missionary Research)
About The Author
Sonya Grypma
Sonya Grypma is an associate professor of nursing at Trinity Western University.
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