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Author Halvorson, Britt, author.

Title Conversionary sites : transforming medical aid and global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota / Britt Halvorson.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages)
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online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Evangelical Lutheran Church in America -- Missions -- Madagascar.
Medical assistance, American -- Madagascar.
Faith-based human services -- Madagascar.
Faith-based human services -- Minnesota.
Missions, Medical -- Madagascar.
Missions, Medical -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Halvorson, Britt. Conversionary sites : transforming medical aid and global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018 298 pages 9780226557120 (DLC) 2017056177
ISBN 9780226557120
9780226557267
9780226557434 (e-book)

 
    
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