Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto : a history of medical care, 1941-1990 / Simonne Horwitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horwitz, Simonne Janine, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baragwanath Hospital.

Public hospitals--South Africa--Johannesburg--History.

Public hospitals.

Hospitals--South Africa--Johannesburg--History.

Hospitals.

Medicine--South Africa--Johannesburg--History.

Medicine.

Baragwanath Hospital--History.

Black people--Hospital care--South Africa--Soweto.

Black people.

Hospitals, Public--history.

Hospital care.

History.

South Africa.

South Africa--Soweto.

South Africa--Johannesburg.

Medical Subjects:

Hospitals, Public--history.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto examines and recounts the ways in which the hospital reflects and intersects with broader social and political themes in the history of South Africa. It is not only the history of medicine and the social transformation that occurred within the Soweto community that can be studied through the lens of Baragwanath, but also the relationships between the various bodies - such as the national government and provincial administration responsible for urban African health care in apartheid times. Baragwanath was an apartheid era institution, but it was also a hospital at the cutting edge of advances in medicine and one in which a special ethos - of dedication in the face of the ravages of poverty, violence and disease - prevailed. The book will contribute to studies of South African history during the apartheid era that have begun to provide a more nuanced account of the workings of apartheid. The history of Baragwanath and of the two professional groups, doctors and nurses, that worked within the hospital tells us much about apartheid ideology and practice in the realm of health care and the medical humanities. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Hospital in Soweto 1

2 From Allied Military Hospital to Urban African Hospital 27

3 Apartheid and Administration: The Hospital, Provincial Administration and the University of the Witwatersrand 56

4 Missionaries, Clinicians, Activists and Bara Boeties: The Doctors of Baragwanath Hospital 86

5 Black Nurses in White: The Nurses of Baragwanath Hospital 119

6 Chronic contradictions: The struggle of Baragwanath in the 1980s 161

7 Baragwanath's Transition and Legacy 200.

Notes:

Based on the author's D.Phil. thesis in History, University of Oxford, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781868147472

1868147479

OCLC:

860980289

Publisher Number:

99975450812