'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).
Table of contents:
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
'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).
Table of contents:
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