East African Doctors : A History of the Modern Profession - John  Iliffe

East African Doctors

A History of the Modern Profession

By: John Iliffe

Hardcover | 26 October 1998

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John Iliffe's latest book is the first history of the African medical profession in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from the earliest training of modern medical staff in the 1870s to the present day. Based on extensive research, and dealing exclusively with African doctors, it offers a new understanding of professionalisation in the Third World. It describes the recruitment and education of doctors, their understanding and practice of modern medicine, the struggle for international recognition of their qualifications and efforts to develop East African medical systems after independence, and their experiences during a period of political and economic difficulty. The book ends with an account of the significant work of East African doctors in the study and control of AIDS. This is a major contribution to the social history of Africa and to the social history of medicine more broadly.
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'East African Doctors, by John Iliffe, is interesting, sensitive and generous towards its subjects and also raises questions, which may, with luck, stimulate further studies of this neglected topic.' Times Literary Supplement

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