| East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession Contributor(s): Lliffe, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521632722 ISBN-13: 9780521632720 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1998 Annotation: This is a history of the training and work of East African doctors since modern medicine began in the region during the 1870s. It discusses recruitment and education of doctors, their understanding and practice of modern medicine, the struggle to secure professional status and to preserve it amid recent political and economic decline. Proposing a new understanding of professionalization in the Third World, it ends with an account of their important contribution to the study and control of AIDS. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Medical | History - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 610.967 |
| LCCN: 97051551 |
| Series: African Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.41 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - African |