The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: A Social History (Clio Medica, 74)
Contributors: E. Van Heyningen (Editor)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789042010642
Subjects: Social History; History; Medical / Nursing; History: World; General; History of Medicine; History, 19th Century; Social Environment; South Africa
First sentence: The Cape Doctor, named after the profession as well as the wind that sweeps the Cape Peninsula of dangerous miasmas, is a social history of medicine, seeking to place formal western medicine within its political, social and economic context.