Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A History of Medical Care 1941–1990

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Established within the early 1940s as a British military hospital and built on land purchased by Cornish immigrant John Albert Baragwanath in what is now Soweto within the late 19th century, Baragwanath Hospital would see an influx of patients from the “non-European” wing of the Johannesburg General Hospital within the “white” area of Johannesburg within the late 1940s, and would sooner or later turn out to be one of the crucial University of the Witwatersrand’s largest teaching centers, bringing medical students and teachers into direct contact with apartheid within the medical sphere. In its long history, the hospital—the most important within the southern hemisphere and the third largest on this planet—has been shaped by a complex set of conditions, and this account examines how this hastily growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, provide medical care to an enormous patient body, and at time even to flourish within the apartheid state. The history of Bara, as it’s popularly known, and of its doctors and nurses, reveals much about apartheid ideology and practice, in addition to resistance to it, within the realm of healthcare. This book offers new ways of exploring the history of apartheid, providing a more nuanced account of its workings.

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