Diversity and Division in Medicine: Health care in South Africa from the 1800s

by Anne Digby

This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and 'western' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between 'western' and indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039107151
• ISBN13: 9783039107155
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"