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.Hardiman, David (ed.), Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa, Rodopi, B.V. (2006)Harries, Patrick and David Maxwell (eds.), The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa, William B Eerdmans Publishing Company (2012).Geissler, Paul Wenzel (ed.), Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health, Duke University Press (2015). 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.
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