Michael Wright, David Clark, and Jennifer Hunt
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199206803
- eISBN:
- 9780191730474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206803.003.0025
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
Ethiopia (population 67.85 million people) is a country in Eastern Africa that covers an area of 1, 127 km2. The concept of home-based care is relatively new in Ethiopia and has evolved as a response ...
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Ethiopia (population 67.85 million people) is a country in Eastern Africa that covers an area of 1, 127 km2. The concept of home-based care is relatively new in Ethiopia and has evolved as a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Three non-governmental humanitarian organizations provide this care: the Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mekdem, and Mary Joy. There is no palliative care component within the HIV/AIDS control programme in Addis Adaba. The WHO palliative care project acknowledges the formidable difficulties confronting Ethiopia. Nevertheless, WHO considers that certain strengths and opportunities are recognizable in Ethiopia. There are no governmental programmes and only three NGOs that provide support for chronically ill patients in a home setting. The WHO overall health care system performance score places Ethiopia 180th out of 191 countries. The political economy of this country is also explored.Less
Ethiopia (population 67.85 million people) is a country in Eastern Africa that covers an area of 1, 127 km2. The concept of home-based care is relatively new in Ethiopia and has evolved as a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Three non-governmental humanitarian organizations provide this care: the Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mekdem, and Mary Joy. There is no palliative care component within the HIV/AIDS control programme in Addis Adaba. The WHO palliative care project acknowledges the formidable difficulties confronting Ethiopia. Nevertheless, WHO considers that certain strengths and opportunities are recognizable in Ethiopia. There are no governmental programmes and only three NGOs that provide support for chronically ill patients in a home setting. The WHO overall health care system performance score places Ethiopia 180th out of 191 countries. The political economy of this country is also explored.
Elisheva A. Perelman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9789888528141
- eISBN:
- 9789882204959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528141.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Chapter VIII looks at two examples of individual missionaries who, although originally part of larger foreign, Protestant organizations, sought to pursue their own agenda in Japan. The first, Rudolf ...
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Chapter VIII looks at two examples of individual missionaries who, although originally part of larger foreign, Protestant organizations, sought to pursue their own agenda in Japan. The first, Rudolf Bolling Teusler, successfully ran St. Luke’s Hospital, ministering to the foreign and domestic population of Tokyo alike. In doing so, he was able to provide a service to the urban poor offset by the funds of the wealthier ex-patriot community in the Kantō region. William Merrill Vories, an evangelical teacher originally, branched out in the Kansai region, opening a fruitful architectural firm as well as a pharmaceutical industry. With the money from these endeavors, he opened his Omi Mission and Brotherhood’s sanatorium for the diseased. Both men utilized native assistance, but both successfully prevailed in the moral enterprise by finding a niche that suited the environments, thus not depending solely on the government for continued assistance. Similarly, they were able to transform the question of cui bono to who should benefit?Less
Chapter VIII looks at two examples of individual missionaries who, although originally part of larger foreign, Protestant organizations, sought to pursue their own agenda in Japan. The first, Rudolf Bolling Teusler, successfully ran St. Luke’s Hospital, ministering to the foreign and domestic population of Tokyo alike. In doing so, he was able to provide a service to the urban poor offset by the funds of the wealthier ex-patriot community in the Kantō region. William Merrill Vories, an evangelical teacher originally, branched out in the Kansai region, opening a fruitful architectural firm as well as a pharmaceutical industry. With the money from these endeavors, he opened his Omi Mission and Brotherhood’s sanatorium for the diseased. Both men utilized native assistance, but both successfully prevailed in the moral enterprise by finding a niche that suited the environments, thus not depending solely on the government for continued assistance. Similarly, they were able to transform the question of cui bono to who should benefit?
Elisheva A. Perelman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9789888528141
- eISBN:
- 9789882204959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528141.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The tuberculosis epidemic of Meiji and Taishō helped to define the relationship between Japan’s government and the foreign, Protestant nondenominational evangelist organizations and individuals who ...
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The tuberculosis epidemic of Meiji and Taishō helped to define the relationship between Japan’s government and the foreign, Protestant nondenominational evangelist organizations and individuals who had recently arrived on the archipelago. For those willing to undertake medical missionary work, particularly concerning public health issues that the government chose to ignore, tuberculosis could have provided an arena in which to prove both utility to the nation and enthusiasm for Japan’s industrial modernization, a moral enterprise. Yet theirs was also a utilitarian mission—more converts would mean more funds for the mission, either from the pockets of the recently converted or from foreign supporters who were bolstered by promising statistics. The victims of the tuberculosis epidemic were pawns in the interactions between the Japanese government and foreign evangelists, as their existence (physical and spiritual) was often used to mediate the relationship between their government and their caretakers. These potential caretakers included the Y.M.C.A., The Salvation Army, and individuals who formerly fell under the auspices of each. These organizations, and the Japanese government, at whose behest they often worked, parsed and differentiate the value of human life medically, politically, culturally, and in terms of gender, labor, and utility.Less
The tuberculosis epidemic of Meiji and Taishō helped to define the relationship between Japan’s government and the foreign, Protestant nondenominational evangelist organizations and individuals who had recently arrived on the archipelago. For those willing to undertake medical missionary work, particularly concerning public health issues that the government chose to ignore, tuberculosis could have provided an arena in which to prove both utility to the nation and enthusiasm for Japan’s industrial modernization, a moral enterprise. Yet theirs was also a utilitarian mission—more converts would mean more funds for the mission, either from the pockets of the recently converted or from foreign supporters who were bolstered by promising statistics. The victims of the tuberculosis epidemic were pawns in the interactions between the Japanese government and foreign evangelists, as their existence (physical and spiritual) was often used to mediate the relationship between their government and their caretakers. These potential caretakers included the Y.M.C.A., The Salvation Army, and individuals who formerly fell under the auspices of each. These organizations, and the Japanese government, at whose behest they often worked, parsed and differentiate the value of human life medically, politically, culturally, and in terms of gender, labor, and utility.
