Harriet Jane Deacon (Queen's College, Oxford)

Submitted: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:47:50 +0000 ()


Harriet Jane Deacon, Ph.D.

Affiliation: 
The Queen's College Oxford (until end of Dec 1996);
thereafter I shall be in Cape Town

Mail address: 
The Queen's College
Oxford 
OX1 4AW
England
UK 

From January 1997:
7 Wraysbury Gardens
Wraysbury Close
Newlands 7700
South Africa

phone:   +44-1865-279187 or after Jan 1997, +27-21-614229
fax:     +44-1865-790819 until 29 Dec 1996
e-mail:  harriet.deacon@history.oxford.ac.uk

I have written on the history of a 19th century Cape Town prison and on
the medical institutions on Robben Island in South Africa from 1846 to
1910 (Ph.D. thesis at University of Cambridge, 1994). More recently I have
been working on a history of the medical market at the Cape from 1760-1860
and on the history of climate and gardens in medical discourse with
particular reference to their role in settler identity. 

I am interested in midwives, professionalization, indigenous medical
practice and the western-trained medical profession in colonies of the
19th and 20th centuries.