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It's all a matter of balanced tensions : Irish medical missionaries in Nigeria, 1937-1967
Veale, Ailish Ellen (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Prior to 1936 Catholic nuns were forbidden by canon law from practising medicine or midwifery, as these were deemed a threat to their vows of chastity and obedience. Only after a lengthy campaign of propaganda and action ...