Published November, 2020
By Anne Biccard
Publisher: Jacana Media
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Anne Biccard has worked as an emergency doctor in Johannesburg for more than 30 years. It is a job that is both terrifying and thrilling, where death can be outwitted by skill and quick thinking, and the pressure eased by dark humour.

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Published March, 2019
By Lucy Wagstaff
Publisher: Jacana Media
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A comprehensive practical reference guide for medical, nursing, and para-medical personnel that sets out guidelines for the diagnosis and management of primary clinical conditions.

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Published April, 2014
By David Dickinson and David G. Dickinson
Publisher: Jacana Media
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Explores how HIV/AIDS is understood in South African townships, where infection continues apace despite extensive educational efforts and where AIDS deaths continue despite the availability of treatment. The book focuses on nonscientific or alternative understandings of AIDS - the folk and lay theories that circulate within African communities.

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Published May, 2012
By Howard Phillips
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Over the last decades, we have seen more than three dozen new infectious diseases appear, some of which could kill millions of people with one or two unlucky gene mutations or one or two unfavourable environmental changes.

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Published October, 2011
By Kristin Palitza, Natalie Ridgard, Helen Struthers and Anton Harber
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Ranging from in-depth quantitative and qualitative research documents to radio and television transcripts and candid interviews, this collection offers insight into the history and struggles of South African health politics and gives a voice to those whose voices are often not heard against the din of political controversy surrounding HIV.

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Published March, 2010
By Nathan Geffen
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An insider's view of the state-supported AIDS denial of South African leaders Thabo Mbeki and Manto Shabalala-Msimang, this memoir describes a great triumph of citizen activism.

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Published November, 2008
By Howard Phillips and Anne Digby
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Examining Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa - world famous as the site of the world's first heart transplant operation in 1967 - this rich and probing history offers a new kind of hospital record.

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Published April, 2006
By Clive Evian and Dr Clive Evian
Publisher: Jacana Media
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This is guide for primary care doctors and nurses in treating and managing people with HIV infection at the primary care level.

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