The cape doctor in the nineteenth century : : a social history / / edited by Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen.

• Superior document: The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Deacon, Harriet,; Phillips, Howard,; Van Heyningen, E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages) :; illustrations, portraits.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; List of Illustrations /; List of Tables /; List of Figures /; Foreword /; Note on Contributors /; Acknowledgements /; Note on Terminology /; Abbreviations /; Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century /; The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 /; Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 /; Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 /; Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 /; Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape /; ‘Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners’: Professionalisation 1860–1910 /; Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity /; Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c.1860-1910 /; The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives /; Select Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301) and index.
• ISBN: 9004333649
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen.

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.