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Thesis
Power Through Compassion: An Ethnographic Study Of Contemporary Western Christian Medical Missions
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2023
Abstract
This thesis investigates the shared cultural model of Christian medical missionaries as actors within global health through ethnographic mixed-methods research. This research reveals how contemporary medical missionaries view and approach their medical practice and the power they wield over patients particularly through evangelizing and conversion-seeking behaviors within a clinic setting. Working within moralistic concepts of compassion and humility, Christian medical missions leverage their medical work in order to create opportunities to proselytize their faith. Positioned within postcolonial theory, this thesis reveals how contemporary Christian medical missionaries engage in a form of neocolonialism through their conversion efforts linked to their medical practice and their continued utilization of a colonial model in which converting indigenous populations to Western Christianity is placed as a priority.
Details
- Title
- Power Through Compassion
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Contributors
- Meredith Marten (Committee Chair)Ben Burgen (Committee Member)Wilson Maina (Committee Member)
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 139
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380461797106600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida