Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals - Softcover

Burrows, Bob

9781550173383: Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550173383 ISBN 13: 9781550173383

Publisher: Harbour Publishing, 2004

This unforgettable story reveals how medical missionaries responded to crises, emergencies and sudden illnesses--including grizzly bear attacks and airplane crashes--without modern technology or urban hospitals. It portrays the small missions and infirmaries and tells how their staff handled life and death in the deep bush, on mountain ranges, in Native villages, on trackless prairies and on distant islands. It describes the sacrifices of devoted physicians, nurses and their families as they healed the sick and wounded, often under dreadful circumstances and in primitive conditions. Author Bob Burrows is uniquely qualified to relate this fascinating narrative of the United Church Mission Hospitals. A United Church minister for more than four decades, he has piloted an aircraft and captained a ship to deliver care to remote areas of British Columbia. He has also worked for both the BC and federal governments in positions of public trust dedicated to ensuring the human rights of aboriginal people, women and minority groups. Extensively researched and illustrated with many never before-seen photographs, "Healing in the Wilderness" will be a revelation and an inspiration to Canadians interested in the development of health care across the remotest regions of the country.

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Review:

"Healing in the Wilderness: A History of United Church Mission Hospitals, a 240 page account published by Harbour Publishing is a masterful undertaking. Former Moderator of the United Church of Canada, Robert Smith, describes Burrow's efforts as an 'authoritative account, laced with anecedote.'"
-Sage Birthwater, The Williams Lake Tribune

Synopsis:

Healing in the Wilderness is an intriguing account of the United Church's 115 year-long commitment to providing medical aid to people scattered throughout Canada's vast wilderness. This unforgettable story reveals how medical missionaries responded to crises, emergencies and sudden illnesses -- including grizzly bear attacks and aeroplane crashes -- without modern technology or urban hospitals. It portrays the small missions and infirmaries and tells how their staff handled life and death in the deep bush, on mountain ranges, in Native villages, on trackless prairies and on distant islands. It describes the sacrifices of devoted physicians, nurses and their families as they healed the sick and wounded, often under dreadful circumstances and in primitive conditions. Author Bob Burrows is uniquely qualified to relate this fascinating narrative of the United Church Mission Hospitals. A United Church minister for more than four decades, he has piloted an aircraft and captained a ship to deliver care to remote areas of British Columbia.

He has also worked for both the BC and federal governments in positions of public trust dedicated to ensuring the human rights of aboriginal people, women and minority groups. Extensively researched and illustrated with many never before-seen photographs, Healing in the Wilderness will be a revelation and an inspiration to Canadians interested in the development of health care across the remotest regions of the country.

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