The cape doctor in the nineteenth century : : a social history / / 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...

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Superior document:The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • List of Illustrations / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • List of Tables / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • List of Figures / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Foreword / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Note on Contributors / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Acknowledgements / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Note on Terminology / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Abbreviations / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century / Harriet Deacon
  • The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 / Harriet Deacon
  • Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 / Harriet Deacon
  • Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 / Howard Phillips
  • Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 / Harriet Deacon and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape / Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • ‘Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners’: Professionalisation 1860–1910 / Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity / Harriet Deacon , Elizabeth van Heyningen , Sally Swartz and Felicity Swanson
  • Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c.1860-1910 / Anne Digby
  • The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives / Howard Phillips
  • Select Bibliography / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen
  • Index / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen.