Baragwanath Hospital Soweto A History Of Medical Care 1941-1950, by Simonne Horwitz

Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto examines and recounts the ways in which the hospital reflects and intersects with broader social and political themes in the history of South Africa. It is not only the history of medicine and the social transformation that occurred within the Soweto community that can be studied through the lens of Baragwanath, but also the relationship between the various bodies - such as the national government and provincial administration responsible for urban African health care in apartheid times. Baragwanath was an apartheid era institution, but it was also a hospital at the cutting edge of advance in medicine and one in which a special ethos - of dedication in the face of the ravages of poverty, violence and disease - -prevailed.