East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521632720)

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.

Author: John Iliffe
ISBN-10: 0521632722
ISBN-13: 9780521632720
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/1998
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d