Pictorial hard covers, copy 275 of a limited edition, 771 pages. This copy is in very good condition.
The Fourth Dimension – is published by the South African Military Health Service. Iit is the most comprehensive study of military health ever attempted in South Africa.
As such it records matters military medical reaching back to the turn of the 20th Century, with a look at the health support available to forces then engaged on both sides of the Anglo Boer War. Detailed and richly illustrated with what must be very rare photographs – the reviewer confesses to not having seen most – the story moves via the World Wars and Korea to the modern era.
Captured also is the post-war growth of the health component of the SA Defence Force from a branch of the SA Army – the South African Medical Corps – to a fully fledged fourth service and its role in the Namibian-Angolan border war of 1966-1989. A full section – with reminiscences – are included regarding the medical services of the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei medical services before their integration into the South African National Defence Force in April 1994.
Given extensive treatment is the health services of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania while in exile. Again, this is unique, readable material not published before. Also recorded for the first time is the struggle against apartheid in the health environment inside South Africa from the 1960s to 1994 – the medical side of the mass democratic movement. Also covered is white resistance to conscription (the End Conscription Campaign), the United Democratic Front and state reaction.
The last three chapters deal with the integration of various antagonistic factions into a new SANDF – and for health professionals, a new SA Medical Service, later renamed the SAMHS; the deployment of this new service onto the regional and international stage; and finally a bold look into the future.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/resources/book-reviews/book-review-the-fourth-dimension/
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 4to (260 x200mm)
