The cape doctor in the nineteenth century a social history

Author(s)

    • Deacon, Harriet
    • Phillips, Howard
    • van Heyningen, Elizabeth

Bibliographic Information

The cape doctor in the nineteenth century a social history

edited by Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen

(The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine)

Rodopi, 2004

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  • : bound

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Includes bibliography and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and gender in their practice. It revises traditional whiggish and linear accounts of professional advancement, but it also moves beyond the classic revisionist tradition, which documents the emergence of a society divided along lines of race and gender, by providing examples of cultural crossover and medical pluralism. It also provides a perspective on a broad historical process within which to understand present debates about the most appropriate health policies in South Africa today.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Note on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Terminology Abbreviations 1 Harriet DEACON: Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century 2 Harriet DEACON: The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 3 Harriet DEACON: Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 4 Howard PHILLIPS: Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 5 Harriet DEACON and Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN: Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 6 Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN: Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape 7 Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN: 'Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners' Professionalisation 1860-1910 8 Harriet DEACON, Elizabeth van HEYNINGEN, Sally SWARTZ and Felicity SWANSON: Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity 9 Anne DIGBY: Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c. 1860-1910 10 Howard PHILLIPS: The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives Select Bibliography Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA69731200
  • ISBN
    • 9042010649
    • 9042010746
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam
  • Pages/Volumes
    318 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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