The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: A Social History (Clio Medica, 74)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789042010741
Subjects: General; History; History of Medicine; History, 19th Century; Social Environment; South Africa; History: World
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.