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Irish physician in West Africa

Joseph Barnes
Born(1914-11-14)14 November 1914
Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (now Northern Ireland)
Died6 May 2017(2017-05-06) (aged 102)
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation(s)Physician, medical missionary

Joseph Barnes (14 November 1914 – 4 May 2017) was an Irish physician and medical missionary who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940s. There he worked with sisters from the Medical Missionaries of Mary including Sr Mary de Lourdes Gogan. Most notably, he co-founded International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation (ICROSS) with Michael Elmore-Meegan.

Born in Belfast, Barnes was educated at Synge Street CBS and University College, Dublin. He lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He became a centenarian in November 2014, and died in 2017, aged 102.

References

  1. Hardiman, David (ed.), Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa, Rodopi, B.V. (2006)
  2. Harries, Patrick and David Maxwell (eds.), The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa, William B Eerdmans Publishing Company (2012).
  3. Geissler, Paul Wenzel (ed.), Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health, Duke University Press (2015).
  4. "Joseph Barnes – An Appreciation". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  5. Taggart, Anastasia (2009). "Gogan, Christina (Sr Mary de Lourdes)". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  6. England, Mary (12 June 2017). "Joseph Barnes: An Appreciation". Irish Times.
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  8. "Founder of ICROSS has died". ICROSS. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  9. "History of the Department". Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  10. Greenwood, David (21 February 2008). "The taming of Tuberculosis and leprosy". Antimicrobial Drugs- Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Medical Triumph. ISBN 9780199534845. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  11. Wenzel Geissler, P.; Molyneux, Catherine (September 2011). "Forays into the field- Trailing B.283 in Nigeria". Evidence, Ethos and Experiment-The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. ISBN 9780857450937.
  12. "Samaritans on Safari". The Rotarian. October 1961. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

External links

  • Profile, famousirishscientists.weebly.com; accessed 22 September 2017.


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