Medical Missionaries In China

Medical missionaries in China were able to completely achieve many of their goals but experienced many struggles in their experiences. The first struggle that was eventually overcome with time was simply the medical missionaries access to China in the early nineteenth century. However, medical missionaries still encountered many problems in the second half of the nineteenth century. These latter problems were caused primarily by the differences in culture and ideologies between the West and the East. The Christian and Protestant medical missionaries were initially intolerant of the Chinese ideologies, which created disconnect between the Chinese and the missionaries . Another challenge that faced the medical missionaries was the different ideologies towards medical missionaries in the different social classes of Chinese. One of the issues that faced medical missionaries in China specifically was the negative attitude towards physicians in general. These adverse feelings towards physicians arose from the poor skills of many Chinese officials. Chinese physicians were unregulated and, therefore, did not possess the …show more content…
The primary place where the medical missionaries were able to connect with the Chinese was in the dispensaries throughout China. In addition to the dispensaries throughout China, the medical missionaries also established multiple medical enterprises that specifically enabled them to associate with the Chinese. One of these such facilities was an orphanage . Medical missionaries established various orphanages throughout China. These orphanages demonstrated the medical missionaries true philanthropic nature to the Chinese and also enabled the missionaries to evangelize individuals from a young age. Both of these aspects of orphanages enabled medical missionaries to leave lasting effects of the people of