Sinikithemba: The Labour of Hope and Science at McCord Hospital in the Era of HIV
R420.00
During the catastrophic HIV pandemic that escalated into a national crisis in South Africa, a single, remarkable hospital on a high ridge in the port city of Durban emerged as an internationally recognised community of care, treatment and research.
The story of McCord Hospital is an intersection of faith, medical pioneers, community making and knowledge production. Written by two historians and a medical doctor, the book takes its title – meaning ‘give us hope’ or ‘we give hope’ in isiZulu – from the name of McCord’s HIV clinic. The authors trace the arc of McCord Hospital from its humble roots in the early twentieth century through to its role as a global leader in the fight against HIV, bringing to life the tensions, triumphs and challenges of this era.
Sinikithemba is a history of the complex interface between medicine and society. It is impossible to understand the development of McCord’s innovative HIV programmes without coming to an understanding of McCord as a dynamic community of care, as a place sustained by thousands of people in Durban, and as a mission hospital that fought for survival and retained its sense of purpose under successive South African governments.
As McCord scaled up its treatment programme and drew significant support through PEPFAR funding, the wider hospital community expanded to include scientists and professors, clinicians and researchers, midwives and nurses, volunteers and donors, patients and families, provincial officials and philanthropists, pop stars and prayer groups.
At the height of a global crisis, in the city at the epicentre of the South African epidemic, hope was laboured into being at a hospital with a unique ethos and a long history of people-centred care. Sinikithemba tells that story.
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| Weight | 032 kg |
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| Dimensions | 235 × 155 × 22 mm |
| Author | Catherine Burns, Janet Giddy, Jennifer Upton |
| Author Information | Jennifer Upton is a writer, editor and historian from Durban. Educated at the University of KwaZulu-Natal before pursuing her graduate studies in the UK, she has an MA in History from the University of Warwick and earned her PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. In addition to medical history, her research interests include life writing, literature and historiography. Janet Giddy is a family physician with a master’s degree in public health from the University of Cape Town, who has completed a Clinical Effectiveness Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has experience in rural health, primary health care, maternal and child health, HIV and TB. Her professional interests include the first 1000 days of life, resilience and relationships, and creative writing. She has been involved in the education of nurses, doctors and medical students, and has participated in research studies in the field of HIV, TB, PMTCT and reproductive health. Catherine Burns is a medical historian and historian of Africa educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, at Johns Hopkins University, and at Northwestern University. She inaugurated the first medical humanities interdisciplinary programme in the Southern African region. Her interests include health in the history of African societies; indigenous, missionary, colonial and biomedical health systems; women and children’s health; epidemics; ethics; and inequalities in African health settings. She is based at the University of Johannesburg. |
| ISBN | 9781431435999 |
| Year of Publication | 2026 |
| Month of Publication | July |
| Language | English |
| Imprint | Jacana Media |
| Format | Print edition |
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