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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 ...
An analysis of the contact patterns perpetuating the transmission of tuberculosis in two high incidence communities in the Cape Town Metropolitan area
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
Biomedicine positively maintains that tuberculosis transmission occurs due to close
contact with a diseased individual (Coovadia and Benatar, 1991). Consequently, this
refers to a direct mode of transmission where ...
Aid to Lesotho: dilemmas of state survival and development
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)
This thesis discusses the triangular relationship of aid, state and development since Lesotho's independence. It builds on three key hypotheses. First, during the preadj ustment period aid entrenched bureaucratic state ...
A socio-historical analysis of education/in the / third world and its implication)lfor rural development
(University of Western Cape, 1993)
The greater part of the analysis relates to the needs of
the Third World, with an emphasis on Africa (as opposed to
the entire Third World). Within the African context, these
needs should be seen against a background ...
The politics of UMOYA: Variation in the interpretation and management of diarrheal illnesses among mothers, professional nurses, and indigenous health practitioners in Khayelitsha, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
This study deals with the social interpretation of childhood diarrhea among the Xhosa speaking people of the Western Cape in South Africa. It highlights how in the Western Cape political consciousness and moralist discourses ...
'n Psigo-Sosiale Studie van Tienerswangerskappe in die Noordelike Stadsgebiede van die Kaapse Skiereiland
(University of Western Cape, 1990)
Die verskynsel van tienerswangerskap kom in alle samelewingsvorme voor en toon 'n steeds stygende toename in alle wêrelddele sodat dit deur sommige outeurs as epidemies beskou word (Chelala, 1988: 22). Dit vorm deel van ...