Transnational & Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare & Humanitarianism

The authors in this collection, largely historians, some with practical connection to medicine and others with more theoretical interests, offer a useful and even enter-taining work. The collection, in the end, inspires the close and careful consideration of the relationships between the historian and the folks who make history, between missions or clinics and those for whom they exist, and between the humanitarian and humanity. These are questions not only of importance within the realm of healthcare, but within the ever-globalising realm of ideas, that realm that is pushed towards the future by knowledge exchange that may be transnational, that may be post-transnational, but that is always interdisciplinary. For scholars of literature and theology, these essays remind us of the many connections between our humanities and our humanity, and of the significance of cautious reflection upon the ways that we listen, upon the ways that we communicate, and upon the necessity of ensuring that our discourses are, after all is said and done, edifying. - J. STEPHEN FOUNTAIN Global Center for Advanced Studies
Overall this ambitious volume does what a good edited collection should do, it is introduced well, and its chapters are meaty and attend to the books remit on global health, welfare and humanitarianism. Importantly, it was good to see an empirically based volume on transnationalisma topic that seems to attract more theorists than critical users. - Carmen M. Mangion, Advance Access July 2014

Introduction; Globalizing Relief & Welfare: The Deaconess Movement; Globalizing Health: Missionary Nursing in Africa; Globalizing Domesticity: Educating Children & Women in Jerusalem & Lebanon; Globalizing History: Theoretical & Methodological Issues & New Approaches.