Howard Phillips
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3613746 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Howard Phillips |
| NOMBRES | Howard |
| APELLIDO | Phillips |
| FIRMA | PHILLIPS H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Religion and Science in Three Pandemics, 1817, 1918, and 2019
Recognizing that serious pandemics call forth explanations which go to the heart of beliefs about why natural disasters occur, this article examines three pandemics over the last 200 years (cholera from 1817, Spanish influenza in 1918–19, and COVID-19) to establish whether such explanations have changed significantly over time and, if so, why. What it finds is that this period saw a watershed in which the dominance of traditional religious explan…
Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa
That the author, Teresa Barnes, is both a historian and a feminist scholar – she is a member of the Department of History and of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Il
The Return of the Pholela Experiment
I examine why South Africa’s pioneering Pholela model of primary health care, dating from the 1940s, held such appeal for the country’s new policymakers after 1994, and why those policymakers have failed to make it the basis of an effective public health care system since then. In the 1940s, the innovative Pholela experiment had served as such a model, to be replicated gradually throughout the country until a new health care system in its image w…
Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague
Journal Article Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Get access Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 323. $32.95. Howard Phillips Howard Phillips University of Cape Town [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Locating the location of a South African location
This article examines the decisive role of the pneumonic plague epidemic of 1904 in re-shaping the racial geography of Johannesburg after the South African War. The panic which this epidemic evoked swept away the obstacles which had blocked such a step since 1901 and saw the Indian and African inhabitants of the inner-city Coolie Location forcibly removed to Klipspruit Farm 12 miles outside of the city as a health emergency measure. There, the la…
Epidemics
Epidemics
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A Move for the Better
Recognising that an effective way to assess changing health status in a well-defined immigrant group as a whole is to measure changes in that ultimate marker of absence of health, death, this article traces changes in mortality in one identifiable immigrant ethnic group (the Jews of Cape Town during the Great Jewish Migration from Europe between 1881 and 1931) as a proxy for their general health experience in the first years after arrival in thei…
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
The Cape Doctor 1807-1910
This chapter contrasts the Cape doctor in 1807 and in 1910, and finds that, in a whole variety of ways, the differences between the two were not of degree but of kind. Underlying this sea-change was the germ revolution of the late Victorian era, which transformed the Cape doctor out of all recognition, thereby laying important foundations for the development of the twentieth-century South African doctor
Home Taught for Abroad
Given that the Cape (or for that matter South Africa) did not have a full medical school until 1920, all Cape doctors before then were trained outside of Africa, the vast majority in Britain and Continental Europe. Accordingly, this chapter examines the kind of training they received in these countries, as this fundamentally shaped the kind of medicine they subsequently practised at the Cape. It concludes by exploring why medical training was so …
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
Years Old and Still Making History
Observing institutional birthdays is not something academic historians readily undertake nowadays – their training makes them habitually wary of the constructed nature of such events and of the self-preening which usually accompanies them. All too often such occasions become part of a celebration of an invented tradition of origins, in which founders’ days are ‘seized on with alacrity for displays of pageantry, where, with high-ranking officials …
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, so-called Spanish influenza, spread to almost all nations worldwide. This outbreak is thought to have killed 25 million people, although some have claimed that the epidemic resulted in as many as 40 million deaths. This pandemic was a particularly dramatic event, because it occurred at the end of World War I, when both armies and the civilian population, in nations involved in the war, were exhausted. In Italy…
Spanish Influenza Pandemic Of 1918-1919
Aids in South Africa
Aids in the Context of South Africa's Epidemic History
Arthur Davey, 1921–1999
Western Australia
First Lessons in South African History
The University of Capetown, 1918-1948
The University of Cape Town 1918-1948
Studies in the History of Cape Town
South Africa's Worst Demographic Disaster
Studies in the History of Cape Town
The University of Capetown, 1918-1948
The local state and public health reform in South Africa
(1987). The local state and public health reform in South Africa: Bloemfontein and the consequences of the Spanish ‘flu epidemic of 1918. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 13, The Political Economy of Health in Southern Africa, pp. 210-233
Locating the location of a South African location
This article examines the decisive role of the pneumonic plague epidemic of 1904 in re-shaping the racial geography of Johannesburg after the South African War. The panic which this epidemic evoked swept away the obstacles which had blocked such a step since 1901 and saw the Indian and African inhabitants of the inner-city Coolie Location forcibly removed to Klipspruit Farm 12 miles outside of the city as a health emergency measure. There, the la…
Years Old and Still Making History
Observing institutional birthdays is not something academic historians readily undertake nowadays – their training makes them habitually wary of the constructed nature of such events and of the self-preening which usually accompanies them. All too often such occasions become part of a celebration of an invented tradition of origins, in which founders’ days are ‘seized on with alacrity for displays of pageantry, where, with high-ranking officials …
Aids in the Context of South Africa's Epidemic History
First Lessons in South African History
South Africa's Worst Demographic Disaster
Studies in the History of Cape Town, Volume 5
The local state and public health reform in South Africa
(1987). The local state and public health reform in South Africa: Bloemfontein and the consequences of the Spanish ‘flu epidemic of 1918. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 13, The Political Economy of Health in Southern Africa, pp. 210-233
South Africa's Worst Demographic Disaster
Studies in the History of Cape Town
The University of Capetown, 1918-1948
The University of Cape Town 1918-1948
First Lessons in South African History
Western Australia
Arthur Davey, 1921–1999
Aids in the Context of South Africa's Epidemic History
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, so-called Spanish influenza, spread to almost all nations worldwide. This outbreak is thought to have killed 25 million people, although some have claimed that the epidemic resulted in as many as 40 million deaths. This pandemic was a particularly dramatic event, because it occurred at the end of World War I, when both armies and the civilian population, in nations involved in the war, were exhausted. In Italy…
Spanish Influenza Pandemic Of 1918-1919
Aids in South Africa
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
The Cape Doctor 1807-1910
This chapter contrasts the Cape doctor in 1807 and in 1910, and finds that, in a whole variety of ways, the differences between the two were not of degree but of kind. Underlying this sea-change was the germ revolution of the late Victorian era, which transformed the Cape doctor out of all recognition, thereby laying important foundations for the development of the twentieth-century South African doctor
Home Taught for Abroad
Given that the Cape (or for that matter South Africa) did not have a full medical school until 1920, all Cape doctors before then were trained outside of Africa, the vast majority in Britain and Continental Europe. Accordingly, this chapter examines the kind of training they received in these countries, as this fundamentally shaped the kind of medicine they subsequently practised at the Cape. It concludes by exploring why medical training was so …
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
Years Old and Still Making History
Observing institutional birthdays is not something academic historians readily undertake nowadays – their training makes them habitually wary of the constructed nature of such events and of the self-preening which usually accompanies them. All too often such occasions become part of a celebration of an invented tradition of origins, in which founders’ days are ‘seized on with alacrity for displays of pageantry, where, with high-ranking officials …
A Move for the Better
Recognising that an effective way to assess changing health status in a well-defined immigrant group as a whole is to measure changes in that ultimate marker of absence of health, death, this article traces changes in mortality in one identifiable immigrant ethnic group (the Jews of Cape Town during the Great Jewish Migration from Europe between 1881 and 1931) as a proxy for their general health experience in the first years after arrival in thei…
Entries
Epidemics
Epidemics
Locating the location of a South African location
This article examines the decisive role of the pneumonic plague epidemic of 1904 in re-shaping the racial geography of Johannesburg after the South African War. The panic which this epidemic evoked swept away the obstacles which had blocked such a step since 1901 and saw the Indian and African inhabitants of the inner-city Coolie Location forcibly removed to Klipspruit Farm 12 miles outside of the city as a health emergency measure. There, the la…
The Return of the Pholela Experiment
I examine why South Africa’s pioneering Pholela model of primary health care, dating from the 1940s, held such appeal for the country’s new policymakers after 1994, and why those policymakers have failed to make it the basis of an effective public health care system since then. In the 1940s, the innovative Pholela experiment had served as such a model, to be replicated gradually throughout the country until a new health care system in its image w…
Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague
Journal Article Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Get access Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 323. $32.95. Howard Phillips Howard Phillips University of Cape Town [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
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