| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
Based on the author's D. Phil. thesis in History, University of Oxford, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Mist of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; A note on terminology; 1 Introduction: A Hospital in Soweto; Intake night -- Baragwanath Hospital; Baragwanath Hospital; Carrying out a history of Baragwanath Hospital; Organisation; Endnotes; 2 From Allied Military Hospital to Urban African Hospital; Soweto and its health services, pre-1948; Health care developments in the Soweto area before World War Two; The war years and the debates about the establishment of Baragwanath as a military hospital |
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Baragwanath's shift to a civilian hospital, 1946-8Staffing the civilian hospital: The first generation and their legacy; Endnotes; 3 Apartheid and Administration: The Hospital, Provincial Administration and the University of the Witwatersrand; Urban African health care under apartheid; Baragwanath as an apartheid teaching hospital: The role of Wits; Wits and Baragwanath: Clinical and academic reasons for being at Baragwanath; The struggle for control over nursing at Baragwanath Hospital; Endnotes; 4 Missionaries, Clinicians, Activists and Bara Boeties: The Doctors of Baragwanath Hospital |
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Patients, pathology and physiciansPolitics, humanitarianism and institutional commitment; Bara Boeties; The Baragwanath doctors; Endnotes; 5 Black Nurses in White: The Nurses of Baragwanath Hospital; Why black women entered nursing: The Baragwanath experience; Exploring the 'altruistic' motivations for entering nursing; Exploring status-linked motives for entering nursing; The Baragwanath experience and identity; Challenging identities: Nurses' strikes and demonstrations; Endnotes; 6 Chronic contradictions: The struggle of Baragwanath in the 1980s |
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The Mathibela twins: Two children and a world of attentionThe nature of apartheid medicine: The central contradictions at Baragwanath Hospital; Endnotes; 7 Baragwanath's Transition and Megacy; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; Plates |
| Summary |
Established in the early 1940s as a British military hospital and built on land purchased by Cornish immigrant John Albert Baragwanath in what is now Soweto in the late 19th century, Baragwanath Hospital would see an influx of patients from the "non-European" wing of the Johannesburg General Hospital in the "white" area of Johannesburg in the late 1940s, and would eventually become one of the University of the Witwatersrand's largest teaching centers, bringing medical students and teachers into direct contact with apartheid in the medical sphere. In its long history, the hospital-the largest i |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Baragwanath Hospital -- History.
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Baragwanath Hospital. |
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Public hospitals -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History.
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Hospitals -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History.
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Medicine -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- History.
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Black people -- Hospital care -- South Africa -- Soweto.
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MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. |
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Hospitals. |
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Medicine. |
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Public hospitals. |
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South Africa -- Johannesburg. |
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South Africa -- Soweto. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Horwitz, Simonne. Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto : A History of Medical Care 1941-1990. Chicago : Wits University Press, ©2014 9781868147472 |
| ISBN |
9781868147489 (electronic bk.) |
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1868147487 (electronic bk.) |
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9781868148301 (electronic bk.) |
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1868148300 (electronic bk.) |
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9781868147472 |
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