East African Doctors a History of the Modern Profession
- List Price: $119.99
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
Description:
This is a history of the training and work of Fast 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.
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