Our authors are both academics: one a community physician from India and one a British theologian. A community health physician and a teacher, Dr Sara Bhattacharji trained and worked at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. Her international consultancy work, which has included long-term relationships with the World Council of Churches and the World Health Organization, has raised many of the questions addressed in this book. Particular interests include primary healthcare, women’s health and development, community-based rehabilitation and the theology of health and healing.
Dr Gillian Paterson is a UK-based theologian with over thirty years’ experience of research on religion and global health. She has worked for British development agencies and as a consultant to the World Council of Churches and UNAIDS. The author of many books and articles on faith and healing, she was until recently a Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London. Now semi-retired, she is learning first-hand to live with the disabilities that many of us encounter in the process of ageing.