Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto : a history of medical care, 1941-1990 /
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| Author / Creator: | Horwitz, Simonne, 1978- |
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| Imprint: | Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2013. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10768519 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A Hospital in Soweto; Intake night
- Baragwanath Hospital; Baragwanath Hospital; Carrying out a history of Baragwanath Hospital; Organisation; Endnotes; 2 From Allied Military Hospital to Urban African Hospital; Soweto and its health services, pre-1948; Health care developments in the Soweto area before World War Two; The war years and the debates about the establishment of Baragwanath as a military hospital; Baragwanath's shift to a civilian hospital, 1946-8Staffing the civilian hospital: The first generation and their legacy; Endnotes; 3 Apartheid and Administration: The Hospital, Provincial Administration and the University of the Witwatersrand; Urban African health care under apartheid; Baragwanath as an apartheid teaching hospital: The role of Wits; Wits and Baragwanath: Clinical and academic reasons for being at Baragwanath; The struggle for control over nursing at Baragwanath Hospital; Endnotes; 4 Missionaries, Clinicians, Activists and Bara Boeties: The Doctors of Baragwanath Hospital; Patients, pathology and physiciansPolitics, humanitarianism and institutional commitment; Bara Boeties; The Baragwanath doctors; Endnotes; 5 Black Nurses in White: The Nurses of Baragwanath Hospital; Why black women entered nursing: The Baragwanath experience; Exploring the 'altruistic' motivations for entering nursing; Exploring status-linked motives for entering nursing; The Baragwanath experience and identity; Challenging identities: Nurses' strikes and demonstrations; Endnotes; 6 Chronic contradictions: The struggle of Baragwanath in the 1980s; The Mathibela twins: Two children and a world of attentionThe nature of apartheid medicine: The central contradictions at Baragwanath Hospital; Endnotes; 7 Baragwanath's Transition and Legacy
