In southern Africa today, as elsewhere, expressions of psychological distress elicit a variety
of explanatory frameworks and responses that continue to reflect the different discourses …

This Special Edition of Medical History is the first in this journal's fifty-seven years' history
solely dedicated to histories of medicine, health and healing in South Africa, or indeed any …

Thalidomide is in many ways the archetypal drug of our era. Produced in the mid 1950s by
the German firm Chemie-Grünenthal GmbH, and sold directly by them or by licencees, it was …

This article focuses on histories of one category of the many new synthetic drugs of the mid-
twentieth century, which were variously termed hypnotics, sedatives and tranquillisers. I …

This article provides a history of three pharmaceuticals in the making of modern South
Africa. Borrowing and adapting Arthur Daemmrich's term 'pharmacopolitics', we examine …

Nineteenth-century southern Africa was, in Belinda Bozzoli's memorable phrase, a
'patchwork quilt of patriarchies'.'Since the 1970s, a number of studies have charted aspects …

On the 25th October 1894 she (my wife) did, under a fit of temporary insanity, take the life of
her youngest child, which insanity, I attribute to a disease, commonly known amongst …

Simons noted a striking discrepancy between law and sexual practice that was peculiar to
Natal. At that time, Natal was the only South African province in which women over 21 years …

Umhayizo, a form of bewitchment of young women supposedly caused by the use of love
medicines, has been reported in south-eastern Africa, especially in the Province of KwaZulu …

'Bridging'programmes have been a favoured method of providing instruc-tion in the skills
and knowledge-based considered necessary to succeed in mainstream university studies …