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Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946

By Suryakanthie Chetty

Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946 Medicine

Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946

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1. Introduction.- 2. 'Brain-waves to beat Hitler’: Science, Technology and Invention.- 3. 'Strange and wondrous things’: Military Technology on Show.- 4. From Creation to Credit: Major Du Toit and the Invention of the Flail Tank.- 5. A Tale of Two Hospitals: Reconstructive Surgery and Race.- 6. Invention, Compensation and Dissemination at the Brenthurst Red Cross Military Hospital for Plastic Surgery.- 7. Man and Machine: Ernst Jokl, Aviation Medicine and ‘a rational science of organism’.- 8. The Measured Mind: Aptitude Testing in the Union Defence Force.- 9. 'The amoebic beginning of a world mind…’: Sharing Knowledge in a Post-war World.
Product details
Number of Pages:
324
Release Date:
2025-11-18
Publication Date:
2025-11-18
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3032050839
ISBN13:
9783032050830
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
531 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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