Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301) and index.

Preliminary Material / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- List of Illustrations / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- List of Tables / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- List of Figures / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Foreword / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Note on Contributors / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Acknowledgements / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Note on Terminology / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Abbreviations / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Introduction: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century / Harriet Deacon -- The Cape Doctor and the Broader Medical Market, 1800-1850 / Harriet Deacon -- Medical Gentlemen and the Process of Professionalisation before 1860 / Harriet Deacon -- Home Taught for Abroad: The Training of the Cape Doctor, 1807-1910 / Howard Phillips -- Opportunities Outside Private Practice before 1860 / Harriet Deacon and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Medical Practice in the Eastern Cape / Elizabeth van Heyningen -- ‘Regularly Licensed and Properly Educated Practitioners’: Professionalisation 1860–1910 / Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Mineral Wealth and Medical Opportunity / Harriet Deacon , Elizabeth van Heyningen , Sally Swartz and Felicity Swanson -- Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c.1860-1910 / Anne Digby -- The Cape Doctor 1807-1910: Perspectives / Howard Phillips -- Select Bibliography / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Index / Harriet Deacon , Howard Phillips and Elizabeth van Heyningen.

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The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and gender in their practice. It revises traditional whiggish and linear accounts of professional advancement, but it also moves beyond the classic revisionist tradition, which documents the emergence of a society divided along lines of race and gender, by providing examples of cultural crossover and medical pluralism. It also provides a perspective on a broad historical process within which to understand present debates about the most appropriate health policies in South Africa today.