Hilary John Deacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 114343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary John Deacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary John |
| FAMILY NAME | Deacon |
| SIGNATURE | DEACON H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5343-6842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sovereignty and development
This article investigates the justifications for Kenya's pioneering 2016 legislation to protect the interests of communities in their traditional knowledge. Drawing on parliamentary, governmental and media sources, it argues that law reform was underpinned by political concerns about the exploitation of valuable resources by foreign concerns. This problematization of traditional knowledge in terms of national sovereignty and development defines t…
Conceptualising Intangible Heritage in Urban Environments
The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Recommendation (UNESCO 2011) suggests that heritage management should be holistic, integrated, people-centred and focused on sustainable development goals. Both tangible and intangible heritage should be taken into account, allowing for appropriate change over time. A variety of stakeholders should be involved in planning processes, including all levels of government, NGOs and communities. Intercultural dialogue…
Safeguarding the Art of Pizza Making
Traditional" foodways are represented as an important part of cultural heritage in Europe. Two legal instruments aim to play a role in safeguarding them-namely, the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) scheme and the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. These instruments are sometimes used in parallel-for example, in the TSG registration for "Pizza Napoletana" and the nomination of "the art of Neapo…
Understanding the work that 'culture' does
This article analyses cultural rights provisions in the new Constitution of Kenya 2010 (CoK) in comparative perspective, as a background to other articles in this Special Issue that discuss the negotiation process within Kenya from which the constitution emerged in 2010, and the way in which various stakeholders have sought to use the new rights enshrined in the constitution. The CoK borrows widely from other constitutions and international law t…
Commemorating and Forgetting
This book discusses the ways in which selective remembering and forgetting of the past have been harnessed to the construction of politically useful identities and narratives in the ‘New South Africa’. The author is a US professor of urban planning who was ‘fascinated by how sites of memory became vehicles for always remembering and never forgetting’ (p. 220). He wrote the book after visiting South Africa several times from 1998 onwards, teaching…
Authenticity, Value and Community Involvement in Heritage Management under the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions illustrate a broader trend towards greater appreciation of the role of communities concerned in identifying, managing and protecting their heritage today. This paper will discuss requirements for greater community involvement in heritage identification and management under the two Conventions, with special attention to…
Towards a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma
Stigma has been identified as a major barrier to health care and quality of life in illness management. But unfortunately there is no common theoretical perspective on stigma. We need a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma. This would start with a coherent definition of stigma that brings together both individual and social dimensions of this complex phenomenon. It would reassesses the existence of ‘types’ of stigma and explain how stigma …
Unravelling the contexts of stigma
This special edition on ‘Understanding and Challenging Stigma’ seeks to further our understandings of the types of representations and practices through which stigma is perpetuated, the social contexts within which they are produced and reproduced, and the possibilities for agency, resistance and intervention. In this introductory piece, we outline three broad approaches to stigma in the existing literature—individual, macro‐social and multi‐leve…
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity
With the increase in population and in colonial revenues after the discovery of diamonds and gold in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, public and private hospitals proliferated, particularly in larger centres such as Cape Town. The numbers of practitioners engaged in public health also increased. Perhaps as important, doctors were now accepted as skilled professionals and remunerated accordingly. At the same time there was also a greate…
Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860
In the early-nineteenth century, the professionalisation of medicine at the Cape began in earnest. Although there were key legislative and professional developments in this period, the notion, outlined in Burrows' seminal work on South African medical history, that it was a 'golden' age of medical reform underplays the extent of intra-professional differentiation and draws attention away from the politics of professional regulation at the Cape. T…
The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850
Regularly trained and licensed Cape doctors in the nineteenth century operated within a medical market which accommodated other suppliers of medical care, both competing and complementary. These 'alternative practitioners' included shopkeepers selling patent medicines, apothecaries, chemists and midwives, Muslim folk healers and indigenous Khoisan or African healers. Licensed doctors also provided medical services for a wide variety of clients - …
Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860
This chapter discusses the restrictions and opportunities which salaried employment offered Cape doctors in the pay of government and charitable organisations during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century. Although Cape doctors often acted as agents of the colonial state there were many nuances within this relationship. While military doctors played an important role in the profession during the first few decades of the century, by the 18…
Introduction
The Cape Doctor, named after the profession as well as the wind that sweeps the Cape Peninsula of dangerous miasmas, is a social history of medicine, seeking to place formal western medicine within its political, social and economic context. Besides Shula Marks' study of South African nurses, Divided Sisterhood, no previous work has brought such a breadth of material about South Africa's medical past under the framework of social history. This wo…
Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945 (review)
Reviewed by: Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945 Harriet Deacon Marion Wallace . Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945. Basel Namibia Studies Series, no. 7. Basel: P. Schlettwein, 2002. xvii + 312 pp. Ill. £20.00, Sw. Fr. 48.00, $Nam. 130.00, ZAR (South African Rand) 130.00 (3-909193-11-7). Many historians of colonial medicine are tempted to bury themselves in voluminous colonial archives that create an…
Reports on Colloquium Sessions
Since the late 1980s the environmental trope in South African history has been gradually elevated to a field of enquiry in its own right. The impetus to this transformation has been varied, the blossoming of environmental history in the North American academy and green politics and agrarian social history in South Africa being among the more influential
Intangible Heritage in Conservation Management Planning
Robben Island Museum officially commemorates ‘the triumph of the human spirit over adversity’, relating especially to the period of political imprisonment between 1961 and 1991 when Robben Island was most notorious as a political prison for the leaders of the anti‐apartheid struggle. Robben Island became a World Heritage Site in December 1999 because of its universal symbolic significance—its intangible heritage. This paper explores the implicati…
Science and Society in Southern Africa. Saul Dubow
Landscapes of Exile and Healing
Racism and Medical Science in South Africa's Cape Colony in the Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century
Racism has been a particular focus of the history of Western medicine in colonial South Africa. Much of the research to date has paradoxically interpreted Western medicine as both a handmaiden of colonialism and as a racist gatekeeper to the benefits of Western medical science. This essay suggests that while these conclusions have some validity, the framework in which they have been devised is problematic. Not only is that framework contradictory…
Using Computer Technology in History Teaching
Midwives and Medical Men in the Cape Colony Before 1860
Relatively little research has been done on the history of midwifery at the Cape, although there has lately been increasing interest in the social history of medicine, as well as in the history of abortion, rape, infanticide and motherhood in South Africa. One of the reasons for the dearth of research is the relative absence of women, especially black women, from the historical record. The archival record of what was called the Cape Colony during…
Cape Town and 'Country' Doctors in the Cape Colony during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
This paper argues that during the 'golden' age of medical reform in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Cape Colony there was significant differentiation within the medical profession which contributed to a slow and uneven process of professionalization in spite of comprehensive and early legal regulation under one licensing body. Differences in permitted practice, settlement patterns, economic and organizational opportunities gave do…
Madness, race and moral treatment
The history of psychiatry in the nineteenth-century British colonies has begun to receive some attention from social historians. The Cape is no exception. Recent work by Moyle, Foster and Swartz has traced the development of a racialized psychiatry in the Cape during the course of the nineteenth century, challenging the picture drawn by Minde and others of a progressive and scientific psychiatry.2 2 By the 1890s, both in medical discourse and in …
Racial segregation and medical discourse in nineteenth-century Cape Town
This study considers the timing and the nature of the emergence of racial segregation in two key colonial institutions of the nineteenth century Cape, the Breakwater Prison and the General Infirmary on Robben Island. Whereas many historians have pointed to the early 1900s as a crucial decade in the development of systematic racial segregation in society as a whole, the Robben Island hospitals and the Breakwater prisons provide evidence of segrega…
Towards a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma
Stigma has been identified as a major barrier to health care and quality of life in illness management. But unfortunately there is no common theoretical perspective on stigma. We need a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma. This would start with a coherent definition of stigma that brings together both individual and social dimensions of this complex phenomenon. It would reassesses the existence of ‘types’ of stigma and explain how stigma …
Unravelling the contexts of stigma
This special edition on ‘Understanding and Challenging Stigma’ seeks to further our understandings of the types of representations and practices through which stigma is perpetuated, the social contexts within which they are produced and reproduced, and the possibilities for agency, resistance and intervention. In this introductory piece, we outline three broad approaches to stigma in the existing literature—individual, macro‐social and multi‐leve…
Authenticity, Value and Community Involvement in Heritage Management under the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions illustrate a broader trend towards greater appreciation of the role of communities concerned in identifying, managing and protecting their heritage today. This paper will discuss requirements for greater community involvement in heritage identification and management under the two Conventions, with special attention to…
Intangible Heritage in Conservation Management Planning
Robben Island Museum officially commemorates ‘the triumph of the human spirit over adversity’, relating especially to the period of political imprisonment between 1961 and 1991 when Robben Island was most notorious as a political prison for the leaders of the anti‐apartheid struggle. Robben Island became a World Heritage Site in December 1999 because of its universal symbolic significance—its intangible heritage. This paper explores the implicati…
Midwives and Medical Men in the Cape Colony Before 1860
Relatively little research has been done on the history of midwifery at the Cape, although there has lately been increasing interest in the social history of medicine, as well as in the history of abortion, rape, infanticide and motherhood in South Africa. One of the reasons for the dearth of research is the relative absence of women, especially black women, from the historical record. The archival record of what was called the Cape Colony during…
Racial segregation and medical discourse in nineteenth-century Cape Town
This study considers the timing and the nature of the emergence of racial segregation in two key colonial institutions of the nineteenth century Cape, the Breakwater Prison and the General Infirmary on Robben Island. Whereas many historians have pointed to the early 1900s as a crucial decade in the development of systematic racial segregation in society as a whole, the Robben Island hospitals and the Breakwater prisons provide evidence of segrega…
Safeguarding the Art of Pizza Making
Traditional" foodways are represented as an important part of cultural heritage in Europe. Two legal instruments aim to play a role in safeguarding them-namely, the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) scheme and the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. These instruments are sometimes used in parallel-for example, in the TSG registration for "Pizza Napoletana" and the nomination of "the art of Neapo…
Racism and Medical Science in South Africa's Cape Colony in the Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century
Racism has been a particular focus of the history of Western medicine in colonial South Africa. Much of the research to date has paradoxically interpreted Western medicine as both a handmaiden of colonialism and as a racist gatekeeper to the benefits of Western medical science. This essay suggests that while these conclusions have some validity, the framework in which they have been devised is problematic. Not only is that framework contradictory…
Landscapes of Exile and Healing
Cape Town and 'Country' Doctors in the Cape Colony during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
This paper argues that during the 'golden' age of medical reform in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Cape Colony there was significant differentiation within the medical profession which contributed to a slow and uneven process of professionalization in spite of comprehensive and early legal regulation under one licensing body. Differences in permitted practice, settlement patterns, economic and organizational opportunities gave do…
Comment on the new maxillary finds from Klasies River, South Africa
Madness, race and moral treatment
The history of psychiatry in the nineteenth-century British colonies has begun to receive some attention from social historians. The Cape is no exception. Recent work by Moyle, Foster and Swartz has traced the development of a racialized psychiatry in the Cape during the course of the nineteenth century, challenging the picture drawn by Minde and others of a progressive and scientific psychiatry.2 2 By the 1890s, both in medical discourse and in …
Racial segregation and medical discourse in nineteenth-century Cape Town
This study considers the timing and the nature of the emergence of racial segregation in two key colonial institutions of the nineteenth century Cape, the Breakwater Prison and the General Infirmary on Robben Island. Whereas many historians have pointed to the early 1900s as a crucial decade in the development of systematic racial segregation in society as a whole, the Robben Island hospitals and the Breakwater prisons provide evidence of segrega…
Cape Town and 'Country' Doctors in the Cape Colony during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
This paper argues that during the 'golden' age of medical reform in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Cape Colony there was significant differentiation within the medical profession which contributed to a slow and uneven process of professionalization in spite of comprehensive and early legal regulation under one licensing body. Differences in permitted practice, settlement patterns, economic and organizational opportunities gave do…
Using Computer Technology in History Teaching
Midwives and Medical Men in the Cape Colony Before 1860
Relatively little research has been done on the history of midwifery at the Cape, although there has lately been increasing interest in the social history of medicine, as well as in the history of abortion, rape, infanticide and motherhood in South Africa. One of the reasons for the dearth of research is the relative absence of women, especially black women, from the historical record. The archival record of what was called the Cape Colony during…
Landscapes of Exile and Healing
Racism and Medical Science in South Africa's Cape Colony in the Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century
Racism has been a particular focus of the history of Western medicine in colonial South Africa. Much of the research to date has paradoxically interpreted Western medicine as both a handmaiden of colonialism and as a racist gatekeeper to the benefits of Western medical science. This essay suggests that while these conclusions have some validity, the framework in which they have been devised is problematic. Not only is that framework contradictory…
Science and Society in Southern Africa. Saul Dubow
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity
With the increase in population and in colonial revenues after the discovery of diamonds and gold in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, public and private hospitals proliferated, particularly in larger centres such as Cape Town. The numbers of practitioners engaged in public health also increased. Perhaps as important, doctors were now accepted as skilled professionals and remunerated accordingly. At the same time there was also a greate…
Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860
In the early-nineteenth century, the professionalisation of medicine at the Cape began in earnest. Although there were key legislative and professional developments in this period, the notion, outlined in Burrows' seminal work on South African medical history, that it was a 'golden' age of medical reform underplays the extent of intra-professional differentiation and draws attention away from the politics of professional regulation at the Cape. T…
The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850
Regularly trained and licensed Cape doctors in the nineteenth century operated within a medical market which accommodated other suppliers of medical care, both competing and complementary. These 'alternative practitioners' included shopkeepers selling patent medicines, apothecaries, chemists and midwives, Muslim folk healers and indigenous Khoisan or African healers. Licensed doctors also provided medical services for a wide variety of clients - …
Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860
This chapter discusses the restrictions and opportunities which salaried employment offered Cape doctors in the pay of government and charitable organisations during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century. Although Cape doctors often acted as agents of the colonial state there were many nuances within this relationship. While military doctors played an important role in the profession during the first few decades of the century, by the 18…
Introduction
The Cape Doctor, named after the profession as well as the wind that sweeps the Cape Peninsula of dangerous miasmas, is a social history of medicine, seeking to place formal western medicine within its political, social and economic context. Besides Shula Marks' study of South African nurses, Divided Sisterhood, no previous work has brought such a breadth of material about South Africa's medical past under the framework of social history. This wo…
Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945 (review)
Reviewed by: Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945 Harriet Deacon Marion Wallace . Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945. Basel Namibia Studies Series, no. 7. Basel: P. Schlettwein, 2002. xvii + 312 pp. Ill. £20.00, Sw. Fr. 48.00, $Nam. 130.00, ZAR (South African Rand) 130.00 (3-909193-11-7). Many historians of colonial medicine are tempted to bury themselves in voluminous colonial archives that create an…
Reports on Colloquium Sessions
Since the late 1980s the environmental trope in South African history has been gradually elevated to a field of enquiry in its own right. The impetus to this transformation has been varied, the blossoming of environmental history in the North American academy and green politics and agrarian social history in South Africa being among the more influential
Intangible Heritage in Conservation Management Planning
Robben Island Museum officially commemorates ‘the triumph of the human spirit over adversity’, relating especially to the period of political imprisonment between 1961 and 1991 when Robben Island was most notorious as a political prison for the leaders of the anti‐apartheid struggle. Robben Island became a World Heritage Site in December 1999 because of its universal symbolic significance—its intangible heritage. This paper explores the implicati…
Towards a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma
Stigma has been identified as a major barrier to health care and quality of life in illness management. But unfortunately there is no common theoretical perspective on stigma. We need a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma. This would start with a coherent definition of stigma that brings together both individual and social dimensions of this complex phenomenon. It would reassesses the existence of ‘types’ of stigma and explain how stigma …
Unravelling the contexts of stigma
This special edition on ‘Understanding and Challenging Stigma’ seeks to further our understandings of the types of representations and practices through which stigma is perpetuated, the social contexts within which they are produced and reproduced, and the possibilities for agency, resistance and intervention. In this introductory piece, we outline three broad approaches to stigma in the existing literature—individual, macro‐social and multi‐leve…
Authenticity, Value and Community Involvement in Heritage Management under the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions illustrate a broader trend towards greater appreciation of the role of communities concerned in identifying, managing and protecting their heritage today. This paper will discuss requirements for greater community involvement in heritage identification and management under the two Conventions, with special attention to…
Commemorating and Forgetting
This book discusses the ways in which selective remembering and forgetting of the past have been harnessed to the construction of politically useful identities and narratives in the ‘New South Africa’. The author is a US professor of urban planning who was ‘fascinated by how sites of memory became vehicles for always remembering and never forgetting’ (p. 220). He wrote the book after visiting South Africa several times from 1998 onwards, teaching…
Conceptualising Intangible Heritage in Urban Environments
The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Recommendation (UNESCO 2011) suggests that heritage management should be holistic, integrated, people-centred and focused on sustainable development goals. Both tangible and intangible heritage should be taken into account, allowing for appropriate change over time. A variety of stakeholders should be involved in planning processes, including all levels of government, NGOs and communities. Intercultural dialogue…
Safeguarding the Art of Pizza Making
Traditional" foodways are represented as an important part of cultural heritage in Europe. Two legal instruments aim to play a role in safeguarding them-namely, the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) scheme and the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. These instruments are sometimes used in parallel-for example, in the TSG registration for "Pizza Napoletana" and the nomination of "the art of Neapo…
Understanding the work that 'culture' does
This article analyses cultural rights provisions in the new Constitution of Kenya 2010 (CoK) in comparative perspective, as a background to other articles in this Special Issue that discuss the negotiation process within Kenya from which the constitution emerged in 2010, and the way in which various stakeholders have sought to use the new rights enshrined in the constitution. The CoK borrows widely from other constitutions and international law t…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · History (12 works) · Cape (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · South African History and Culture (8 works) · Law (6 works)