Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes : Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa /

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The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, vill...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stiehle, Gertrud, 1936- (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Jenkins, J. M. (Éditeur intellectuel), Lannen, Anu (Traducteur), Lund, Frances (Auteur de l'introduction, etc.), Ramphele, Mamphela (Auteur de l'introduction, etc.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Alemán
Publié: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sutter, Erika.
Apartheid
Ländlicher Raum
Gesundheitsfürsorge
Augenärztin
Schweizerin
Ophthalmologists.
Missions, Medical.
Missionaries, Medical.
Anti-apartheid activists.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Medecins missionnaires > Suisse > Biographies.
Medecins missionnaires > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Activistes anti-apartheid > Suisse > Biographies.
Activistes anti-apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Ophtalmologistes > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Ophtalmologistes > Suisse > Biographies.
Missions, Medical > South Africa > Elim (Limpopo)
Missionaries, Medical > Switzerland > Biography.
Missionaries, Medical > South Africa > Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists > Switzerland > Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists > South Africa > Biography.
Ophthalmologists > South Africa > Biography.
Ophthalmologists > Switzerland > Biography.
Südafrika
Switzerland.
South Africa > Elim (Limpopo)
South Africa.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2,000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (136 pages): illustrations, photographs
ISBN:9783905758474

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