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Anne Digby

Diversity and Division in Medicine

Health care in South Africa from the 1800s

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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 boundari… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-03910-715-5
  • EAN: 9783039107155
  • Produktnummer: 19868643
  • Verlag: Lang, Peter
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 504 S.
  • Masse: H22.3 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.2 cm 707 g
  • Abbildungen: 14 ill., 21 tables
  • Gewicht: 707

Über den Autor


The Author: Anne Digby is Research Professor in History at Oxford Brookes University. Currently she is collaborating with colleagues from the University of Cape Town in researching the history of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, where the world's first heart transplant took place.

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