Joseph Barnes (Irish doctor) explained

Joseph Barnes
Birth Date:14 November 1914
Birth Place:Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (now Northern Ireland)
Death Place:Dublin, Ireland
Occupation: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.[1] [2] [3] [4] There he worked with sisters from the Medical Missionaries of Mary including Sr Mary de Lourdes Gogan.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

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Notes and 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. News: Joseph Barnes – An Appreciation. The Irish Times. 22 September 2017.
  5. Book: Taggart. Anastasia. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009. Cambridge University Press. McGuire. James. Cambridge. Gogan, Christina (Sr Mary de Lourdes). Quinn. James.
  6. News: England . Mary . Joseph Barnes: An Appreciation . Irish Times . 12 June 2017.
  7. Web site: Co-founder of ICROSS Dr Joe Barnes over 100 years old. Latest News. ICROSS. 9 January 2015. 22 September 2017. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150823072530/http://www.icrossinternational.org/news.aspx?id=191. 23 August 2015.
  8. Web site: Founder of ICROSS has died. ICROSS. 7 May 2017.
  9. Web site: History of the Department. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 7 May 2017.
  10. News: The taming of Tuberculosis and leprosy. Antimicrobial Drugs- Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Medical Triumph. 9780199534845. 22 September 2017. Greenwood. David. 21 February 2008.
  11. News: Forays into the field- Trailing B.283 in Nigeria. Evidence, Ethos and Experiment-The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. 9780857450937. Wenzel Geissler. P.. Molyneux. Catherine. September 2011.
  12. News: Samaritans on Safari. The Rotarian. October 1961. 22 September 2017.

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