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East African doctors : a history of the modern profession / John Iliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iliffe, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Africa, East--History.
- Physicians.
- Physicians--Africa, East--Biography.
- Medicine--Africa, East--History.
- Medicine.
- Physicians--history.
- History.
- Africa, Eastern.
- Education, Medical--history.
- Health Services--history.
- Africa, East.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians--history.
- Africa, Eastern.
- Education, Medical--history.
- Health Services--history.
- Physicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 336 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Fountain edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2002.
- Summary:
- A historical account of the rise and development of the modern medical profession in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya from the 1870s to the present day. This book describes the recruitment and education of doctors, and their understanding and practice of modern medicine. It addresses their struggles, working in conditions of political and economic uncertainty, and search for international recognition; and their contribution to the study and control of HIV/AIDS.
- Notes:
- First published by Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9970023039
- 9789970023035
- OCLC:
- 53128701
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