The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century

A Social History
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-1074-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Deacon, Harriet

Phillips, Howard

Heyningen, Elizabeth van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Harriet Deacon (PhD Cantab.), Elizabeth van Heyningen (PhD UCT) and Howard Phillips (PhD UCT) are social historians of medicine working in Cape Town, the first two as independent scholars and the latter as an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies at University of Cape Town (UCT).