Histoire de la santé, de la médecine et du soin en Afrique du Sud

New Directions and Challenges in Histories of Health, Healing and Medicine in South Africa

Medical History, 2014/3

edited by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.



Editorial : A Deserving Winner
Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Introduction : New Directions and Challenges in Histories of Health, Healing and Medicine in South Africa
Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble

Reconstructing Harry: A Genealogical Study of a Colonial Family ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ the Grahamstown Asylum, 1888–1918.
Lindy Wilbraham

‘The Hospital was just like a Home’: Self, Service and the ‘McCord Hospital Family’.
Vanessa Noble & Julie Parle

‘The Trial the World is Watching’: The 1972 Prosecution of Derk Crichton and James Watts, Abortion, and the Regulation of the Medical Profession in Apartheid South Africa.
Susanne M. Klausen

Two Tales about Illness, Ideologies, and Intimate Identities: Sexuality Politics and AIDS in South Africa, 1980–95.
Carla Tsampiras

‘A Matter of Conscience’: The Moral Authority of the World Medical Association and the Readmission of the South Africans, 1976–1994.
Mandisa Mbali

New Patterns of Disclosure: How HIV-Positive Support Group Members from KwaZulu-Natal Speak of their Status in Oral Narratives.
Philippe Denis


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