Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Epistemology"
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The body in hospitalization. a study of doctors, nurses and patients in a Cape Town teaching hospital
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)South Africa's health transformation blueprint is designed to replace apartheid's inequities and instill instead a new utilitarian approach by the health care sector. This study gives attention to the medical gaze and the ... -
Epistemicide: A conceptual analysis in African epistemology
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Many social scientists, philosophers and theorists have applied Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s conceptual neologism, ‘Epistemicide’, in various fields, in singular reference to a set of mutually distinct phenomena. This ... -
A historical and conceptual analysis of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS),1997 – 2009.
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)In 1998 the University of the Western Cape together with the University of Cape Town, and the Robben Island Museum introduced a Post-graduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies. This programme was innovative in that ... -
Sociology curriculum in a South African University: a case study
(2012)This study sought to investigate the alleged problem of ‘academic dependency’, on the part of South African sociologists, on western scholarship. The stated problem is said to undermine South African sociologists’ ability ...