A History of Medicine in South Africa Up to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Author | : Edmund H. Burrows |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : History of medicine |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edmund H. Burrows |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : History of medicine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edmund Hartford Burrows |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9004333649 |
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.
Author | : Anne Digby |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Medical care |
ISBN | : 9783039107155 |
This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and 'western' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between 'western' and indigenous medicine is analysed through an exploration of the evolving practices of healers, missionaries, doctors and nurses. The book considers the extent to which there was a strategic crossing of boundaries in the construction of hybrid practices by these practitioners, and the extent to which patients pursued health by sampling diverse care options. Starting with missionary penetration during the early nineteenth century, the volume outlines interventions by the colonial state in medicine and public health, and the continued resilience of indigenous healing in the face of this. The book ends by relating past to present in scrutinising the legacy of historical structures - including those of the apartheid state - for current health care, and in briefly discussing the huge challenges that the HIV/Aids pandemic poses in impacting on them. The book thus provides an inclusive history of medicine for the 'New' South Africa.
Author | : Poonam Bala |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317318226 |
Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.
Author | : Randall M. Packard |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1989-11-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520909120 |
Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the background of the changing political and economic forces that have shaped South African society from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. These forces have generated a growing backlog of disease among black workers and their families and at the same time have prevented the development of effective public health measures for controlling it. Packard's rich and nuanced analysis is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on South Africa's social history as well as to the history of medicine and the political economy of health.
Author | : Anne Digby |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780820479781 |
This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and 'western' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between 'western' and indigenous medicine is analysed through an exploration of the evolving practices of healers, missionaries, doctors and nurses. The book considers the extent to which there was a strategic crossing of boundaries in the construction of hybrid practices by these practitioners, and the extent to which patients pursued health by sampling diverse care options. Starting with missionary penetration during the early nineteenth century, the volume outlines interventions by the colonial state in medicine and public health, and the continued resilience of indigenous healing in the face of this. The book ends by relating past to present in scrutinising the legacy of historical structures - including those of the apartheid state - for current health care, and in briefly discussing the huge challenges that the HIV/Aids pandemic poses in impacting on them. The book thus provides an inclusive history of medicine for the 'New' South Africa.
Author | : Karen Elizabeth Flint |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : 0821418491 |
Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges.
Author | : Waltraud Ernst |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134736010 |
Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case-studies that cover many different parts of the globe, ranging from New Zealand to Africa, China, South Asia, Europe and the USA.