East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

ISBN-13: 9780521632720 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 354 str.

John Lliffe; John Iliffe; David Anderson

Opis

This is a history of the training and work of East African doctors since modern medicine began in the region during the 1870s. It discusses recruitment and education of doctors, their understanding and practice of modern medicine, the struggle to secure professional status and to preserve it amid recent political and economic decline. Proposing a new understanding of professionalization in the Third World, it ends with an account of their important contribution to the study and control of AIDS.

Recenzje

'East African Doctors, by John Iliffe, is interesting, sensitive and generous towards its subjects and also raises questions, which may, with luck, stimulate further studies of this neglected topic.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. The argument; 2. Pioneers; 3. The age of the tribal dresser; 4. Makerere and its students, 1923–49; 5. The pursuit of professional status; 6. The transfer of power; 7. Uganda: doctors and a disintegrating state; 8. Kenya: doctors and a capitalist transition; 9. Tanzania: doctors and a socialist experiment; 10. AIDS; 11. Conclusion.