East African Doctors A History of the Modern Profession [Hardcover]

This 1998 book is a history of Africans as modern doctors based on extensive research in East Africa.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.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.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.1. The argument; 2. Pioneers; 3. The age of the tribal dresser; 4. Makerere and its students, 192349; 5. The pursuit of professional status; 6. The transfer of power; 7. Uganda: doctors and a disintegrating state; 8. Kenya: doctors and a capitalist transition; 9. Tanzania: doctors and a socialist experiment; 10. AIDS; 11. Conclusion. ..Iliffe provides a vivid portrait of political constral“}