The College of Health and Human Development at California State University Northridge has posted an announcement and brief interview of Sulis Academic author Martha Highfield’s new book, A Time to Heal: Missionary Nurses in Churches of Christ, Southeastern Nigeria (1953-1967).
Dr. Highfield is a nursing faculty Emeritus Professor. Here is a brief excerpt:
Why did I write the book? A curiosity about these US nurses is perhaps the best answer. As a child of US missionaries to Nigeria, I heard fragments of their stories. As a nurse scholar, I wanted to discover why and how they came to this work, what they achieved, and where they failed. No archive existed, but missionaries themselves had preserved thousands of letters, clippings, photographs, and other rare materials. Gathering oral histories and sources became a work itself, and I delighted in the privilege of compiling materials from their boxes, bags, basements, and memories.
