Mission doctor
As a medical missionary or missionary doctor is called a doctor , who as part of missionary activity is medically active.
Mission doctors work mainly in the so-called developing countries , often on behalf of and / or in the employ of mission societies . Usually they work in the infirmaries or hospitals of mission stations.
In Germany, the Mission Medical Institute was founded in Würzburg in 1922 to train doctors and nurses active in the mission .
Well-known mission doctors were among others
literature
- Wolfgang Leischner: Medical missions in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe: on the history of the mission hospitals in the Archdiocese of Bulawayo and the biographies of their leading doctors. Univ., Diss., Würzburg 2004.
- Richard Hölzl, The body of the heathen as modern heterotopia. Catholic mission medicine in the interwar period , Historische Anthropologie 19 (2011) 1, pp. 54–81.
- Clemens M. Kmietsch: From the diary of a missionary doctor . No rain in sight - death as a friend. In: continents. Medical Mission Institute Würzburg, Würzburg 1968.
- Max Kohler: What a mission hospital looks like. In: Catholic Missions Medical Welfare: Yearbook. Published by the Medical Mission Institute Würzburg, Würzburg 1928, pp. 18–28.
- Karl Maria Bosslet: Mission medical questions and tasks. Naumann, Augsburg 1947.