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A Century of Achievement - South African Contributions to Global Medicine 1890-1990 / NO STOCK
A Century of Achievement - South African Contributions to Global Medicine 1890-1990 / NO STOCK
Author: Rochelle Keene, Cedric G. Bremner and Simonne Horwitz
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This book describes the contributions made by 138 South African doctors and medical scientists from 1890 to 1990. The periods in which these doctors and scientists began their careers, which span from the beginning of modern medicine in South Africa through apartheid, are described in historical vignettes at the beginning of each chapter.
Despite the academic and cultural boycott of South Africa during the apartheid years, South Africans made astonishing contributions to many fields of biomedicine. The authors record some of these and explain their significance in advancing medical care globally.
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Rochelle Keene, Cedric G. Bremner and Simonne Horwitz
ROCHELLE KEENE (BA[Hons], Witwatersrand) is a former curator of the Adler Museum of Medicine, Wits Faculty of Health Sciences, where she curated many important exhibitions and built up an archive on the history of medicine in South Africa and the Faculty.
CEDRIC G. BREMNER (MBBCh, ChM, [Witwatersrand], FRCS, FRCSE, FACS) is emeritus professor of surgery, Wits University and the University of Southern California. He is an expert on diseases of the oesophagus and was editor of the South African Journal of Surgery for 18 years.
SIMONNE HORWITZ (BA[Hons], [Witwatersrand], MSc & DPhil, [Oxon]) is an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan and senior research associate, Department of History, University of Johannesburg. She has written Baragwanath Hospital Soweto: A History of Medical Care 1941-1990 (WUP, 2013) and numerous articles and book chapters on the history of medicine in South Africa.