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 ...
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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.
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New. 9042010649. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--324 pages--TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Illustrations 1 * List of Tables 3 * List of Figures 5 * Foreword 7 * Note on Contributors 9 * Acknowledgements 11 * Note on Terminology 13 * Abbreviations 15 * 1 Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century 17 * 2 The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 45 * 3 Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 85 * 4 Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 105 * 5 Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 133 * 6 Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape 169 * 7 'Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners' Professionalisation 1860-1910 195 * 8 Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity 223 * 9 Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c. 1860-1910 249 * 10 The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives 281 * Select Bibliography 285 * Index 303. --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. The Cape Doctor is well researched and provides a wealth of data on a large variety of medical-historical topics, inter alia, the origins of the Somerset and other early hospitals, medical associations, the South African Medical Journal, and Cape medical education. The authors are to be commended on a project well done. Professor Dan J. Ncayiyana (Editor, South African Medical Journal, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town). --with a bonus offer--
