Global Christian healthcare missions, European colonialism, and the demand to decolonize medicine

Christoffer Grundmann

doi:10.15566/cjgh.v12i1.371

Global Christian healthcare missions, European colonialism, and the demand to decolonize medicine

Christian Journal for Global Health

Volume 12 (2025): Issue 1

By: Christoffer Grundmann

Open Access

|Mar 2025

Abstract

This article first addresses some principal issues of intercultural encounters as those relate to medical systems and the call for the decolonization of medicine, public healthcare in particular (I) followed by a sketch of the intertwining of Christian missions with European colonialism (II), while the final part deals with the Christian engagement in global healthcare work (III).

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