A medical education with a difference: A history of the training of black student doctors in social, preventive and community-oriented primary health care at the University of Natal Medical School, 1940s-1960

South African Historical Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 550-574

  Noble, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Apartheid; Community oriented primary health care; Durban Medical School; Education; Institute of Family and Community Health; University of Natal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249155649     PISSN: 02582473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02582470903189766     Document Type: Article

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