Conversionary sites [electronic resource] : transforming medical aid and global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota / Britt Halvorson
- Author
- Halvorson, Britt
- Published
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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- Contents
- Introduction: conversionary sites in global christianities -- Remembering and forgetting through medical aid work -- Becoming humanitarians: bodies multiple in communities of aid -- Redeeming medical waste, making medical relief -- Restructuring value in antananarivo -- Translating aid, brokering identity: malagasy doctors as precarious heroes -- Traversing shadow spaces of accountability -- Conclusions: aid's end times.
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- ISBN
- 9780226557120 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226557267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226557434 (e-book) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index.
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