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 | | East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession (African Studies) by John Iliffe ISBN-10: 9780521632720 ISBN-10: 0-521-63272-2 ISBN-13: 9780521632720 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-63272-0 Hardcover 1998-09-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
Book Description 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 amidst recent political and economic decline. Proposing a new understanding of professionalisation in the Third World, it ends with an account of their important contribution to the study and control of AIDS. | ||