亦有仁义:近代西方来华传教士与西北地区的医疗卫生事业

With Kindness and Humaneness——Missionaries from the West and Medical Health System in Modern China

近代西方来华传教士在尽力播撒"上帝福音"的同时,对西北地区的医疗卫生事业颇为关注。他们积极兴建医院、诊疗所,培育地方医疗人才,治病救人不遗余力,甚而一些传教士为医疗事业献出了生命。传教士的行为多少改善了近代西北地区缺医少药的状况,减轻了民众痛苦,且一批西式医院和医疗人才的出现,将新的医疗技术和医患理念输入西北,为构建近代西北地区的新型医疗卫生体系作出了一定贡献。不可否认,传教士积极参与医疗事业有笼络人心,扩大教会影响,劝导民众入教之目的,但传教士秉持基督博爱惠施精神,努力治病救人所取得的成效应予以肯定。

The missionaries from the western countries in modern China,not only focused on evangelizing Gospel,but concerned about medical and health work in northwest China.They made devotions to establishing hospitals,training medical workers and treating illnesses,some even paid lives for medical work.Due to this circumstance,the situation of shortage of professional medical services had been improved and the pain of the people was eased.The western style hospitals and newly trained medical workers,which brought ne...