书目名称 | Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa | 副标题 | The Professional and | 编辑 | Suryakanthie Chetty | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides interdisciplinary insights on modernisation in South Africa during the twentieth century.Contributes to an understudied area in South African history: the history of surgery.Addresses the rel | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn’s private practice, and his work in diverse countries, including Gabon, Japan and Israel, as he sought to rectify the injury caused by conflict. It also addresses his role on the President’s Council, established by Prime Minister P.W. Botha to introduce reform to the system of apartheid..Penn’s career is contextualised by modernisation which was a significant feature of twentieth-century South Africa. It was linked with race from the inception of the state in 1910 with racial segregation and paternalism. Penn’s work during the Second World War was part of a “modernist” bent by the state under Jan Smuts to take the lead in promoting science and technological development – which continued during apartheid. Modernisation was also fluid with state priority shifting between the two poles of development and security as apartheid policies were met with hostility both within the state and beyond its borders. Within the context of decolonisation, increasing black urbanisation required a balancing act on | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | South Africa; apartheid; Albert Schweitzer; medicine; Jack Penn; Second World War; Guinea Pig Club; plastic | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38673-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-38675-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-38673-2 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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