Transnational and Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare and Humanitarianism

Download or read book Transnational and Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare and Humanitarianism written by Ellen Fleischmann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers several essays with transnational and historical perspectives on global health, welfare and humanitarianism. This anthology brings together a series of essays on transnational themes and methodological approaches pertaining to the historical study of global health, welfare and humanitarianism. The essays on topics ranging from missions to methods offer a more nuanced understanding of the interconnectedness and evolving nature of global charitable work, as well as its contribution as an historical antecedent of contemporary (secular) notions of 'global citizenship' and global health. Written by and about northern Europeans and North Americans interested in transnational knowledge exchanges in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, these essays reflect the complex ways in which both historians and their subjects transverse(d) national, gendered, racial and religious boundaries. Through them, the authors open up new questions about the nature of transnationalism (and transnational research) itself. *** "[this book] is a well thought through volume with an introduction that grounds this work on the 'transnational turn' identifying the transnational as 'open-ended movements, exchanges, networks, individual and connections' outside the nation state." -- Carmen M. Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London), Social History of Medicine, 2014 *** "As a whole, the essays contribute much to a deeper understanding of the historical development of global charitable efforts, both within the structures of religious establishments and in the secular movements that have grown out of them." -- J. Stephen Fountain (Global Center for Advanced Studies), Literature and Theology, 2015Ã?Â?