The Mind Is not the Heart

Recollections of a Woman Physician

Eva J. Salber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

1993
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-1365-6 (ISBN)

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Available for the first time in paperback, Eva Salber's The Mind Is Not the Heart (originally published in 1989), is the personal and political story of a white, Jewish, South African woman who practiced medicine for over fifty years among the impoverished-both rural and urban, black and white, in South Africa and later in the United States. Her lifelong dedication to providing health care to poor people was informed by a passionate vision of the link between social problems and medicine, accompanied by an embracing involvement with the communities in which she served. In this warm clear-eyed account, Dr. Salber presents not only her own personal journey, that of a professional woman, teacher, wife, and mother, but also the story of the people on the margins of society among whom she worked.

Eva J. Salber is the author of Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead, also published by Duke University Press. She received her M.D. in 1955 at the University of Cape Town, and practiced medicine in Port Elizabeth, Umtata, Cape Town, and Durban, South Africa, London, Boston, and Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. She died in 1990 at her home in Chapel Hill at the age of 74.

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Part One. South Africa
Becoming a Doctor 3
Sakkie and the Family 18
Port Elizabeth: My First Job 30
London: Marriage and Friends 39
Umtata: Rural Poverty 55
Cape Town: 1941 72
Durban: Health Center Practice 82
Cape Town: 1954 107
Emigrating 122
Part Two. Boston
Becoming a Housewife 133
Settling Down at Harvard 149
Transition 163
The Bracken Field Health Center 171
Part Three. North Carolina
Moving South: A New Beginning 211
Settling Down at Duke 226
Health Facilitators: Lay Advisers in Community Health 239
Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead 253
Afterword 271
Notes 275

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.10.1993
Zusatzinfo	34 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-8223-1365-0 / 0822313650
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-1365-6 / 9780822313656
Zustand	Neuware