ISBN10: 9042010649, ISBN13: 9789042010642, [publisher: RODOPI, AMSTERDAM] Softcover DEACON, H. / H. PHILLIPS / E. VAN HEYNINGEN, EDS.: THE CAPE DOCTOR IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. A SOCIAL HISTORY. AMSTERDAM, 2004, vi 318 p. , 570 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (GC-3-6) 570 gr.
[ZARAGOZA, Spain] [Publication Year: 2004]

Editions Rodopi 2004 Paperback New 9042010649. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--324 pages--TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Illustrations 1 * List of Tables 3 * List of Figures 5 * Foreword 7 * Note on Contributors 9 * Acknowledgements 11 * Note on Terminology 13 * Abbreviations 15 * 1 Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century 17 * 2 The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 45 * 3 Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 85 * 4 Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 105 * 5 Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 133 * 6 Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape 169 * 7 'Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners' Professionalisation 1860-1910 195 * 8 Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity 223 * 9 Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c. 1860-1910 249 * 10 The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives 281 * Select Bibliography 285 * Index 303. --DESCRIPTION: --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 ...