The People's Hospital A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s-1970s

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parle, Julie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--South Africa--History.

Hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

NATAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION, 2021. [S.l.] :

Summary:

"Durban's McCord Hospital, this book argues, is one of the most important hospitals of the twentieth century. Founded 'for the Zulu' in 1909 by American Christian missionaries, Dr James B. McCord and Margaret Mellen McCord, for more than a century it was a centre of affordable health care for the underprivileged of many faiths, cultures and political persuasions. It also pioneered the training of black nurses, midwives and doctors and was supported by prominent figures such as John L. Dube and Chief Albert Luthuli."-- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. 'BRINGING LIGHT TO THE NATION?': MISSIONARIES AND MEDICINE IN NATAL AND ZULULAND

People, politics and plagues in Natal and Zululand in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Faith in healing in Natal in the 1880s and early 1900s

Becoming 'hospital-minded'

American connections

'Anyone can make trouble for the doctor for practising without a license, but worse than that, someone is sure to do so'

ENDNOTES

2. 'GROWING PAINS': THE BEATRICE STREET DISPENSARY, THE COTTAGE HOSPITAL AND THE MISSION NURSING HOME, 1904-1919

Medical encounters in Durban

A hospital in disguise? From the cottage hospital to the Mission Nursing Home, Berea

'But now I am a person. Now I am a nurse'

'And may the good work go on!'

Endnotes

3. 'A GOING CONCERN': McCORD HOSPITAL, 1920s-1940s

'Africa's tomorrow': the expansion of the nurse and midwifery training programmes, 1924-1940

Out there: depression, segregation and the turn to the city in the 1930s

'A school in liberalism and inter-racial co-operation'

'It was the work of many hands, over many years'

4. 'WE WERE FORCED TO IMPROVISE… AND OUR DIFFICULTIES MULTIPLIED': EXPANSION AT McCORD HOSPITAL, 1940s-1960s

Urbanisation pressures, wartime hardships and medical advancements

'Keeping the wheel oiled and the whole repaired': the 'constant headache' of finances

The value of a wide network of 'friends'

Infinitely more than 'indispensable aids': the medical superintendents' wives

'You wouldn't know McCords … with all of the buildings and landscaping going on'

5. 'NO ONE PERSON IS McCORD ZULU HOSPITAL': A COMPLEX CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF CARE.

The 'importance of the spiritual: McCord Hospital's Christian environment

The expansion of general nurse and midwife training programmes

'My reason for choosing McCord's … I want[ed] to work in a Christian environment': doctors and interns

'All of us have our jobs to do': allied health workers and other support staff

The 'reason for [our] being': the patients

6. FIGHTING 'A GOOD FIGHT': THE 'McCORD FAMILY' AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID, 1940s-1970s

The apartheid challenge

The value of being a state-aided not state-controlled institution?

'Happy members of a large family'46: fun, friends and festivities

An (un)happy family?: tensions and tussles within the 'McCord family'

'A place in which one feels that one belongs and is a part': care, community and camaraderie

'The Sword of Damocles is hanging over our hospital!': struggles to survive

'McCord fears big hospital shutdown':164 the early 1970s

EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Back cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781991225696

1991225695

OCLC:

1290429402