Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
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) missionaries arrived in China in 1888 until the abrupt closure of the North China Mission in 1947, Canadian nurses were ubiquitous in Henan. As China underwent a tumultuous transition from dynastic kingdom to independent republic, Canadian nurses advanced a version of hospital-based nursing education and practice that rivalled modern nursing care in Canada. In Healing Henan, Sonya Grypma offers a highly readable and fresh perspective on China missions and the global expansion of professional nursing. As the first comprehensive study of missionary nursing in China, it will be of particular interest to nurses and missionaries, and to historians of Canada, China, nursing, medicine, women’s work, and missions.
312 pages | © 2008
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Spellings
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Gospel of Soap and Water, 1888-1900
2 Visions Interrupted, 1901-20
3 Modern Nursing at Last, 1921-27
4 Golden Years, 1928-37
5 Scattered Dreams, 1937-40
6 War Years, 1941-45
7 The Last Days, 1946-47
Conclusion: Creating a Cloistered Space
Epilogue: Return to Henan, 2003
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of Missionary Nurses at North China Mission
Appendix 2: List of WMS Nurses Who Resigned to be Married
Appendix 3: Three Types of Missionary Nurses
Appendix 4: Missionary Nurse Education
Appendix 5: Summary of 1947 Confidential Report
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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