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David Watters
This book deals with the history of surgery in Papua
New Guinea from the early 1800s until the beginning of the
21st Century. It spans the period from the fi rst European
contact to the emergence o...view moreThis book deals with the history of surgery in Papua
New Guinea from the early 1800s until the beginning of the
21st Century. It spans the period from the fi rst European
contact to the emergence of highly educated sub-specialist
national surgeons. It tells the story from the fi rst impressions
of ships surgeons to the introduction and development of
surgery. Between 1870 and 1950 the country and the lives
of its peoples changed greatly as a result of exploration,
evangelisation, colonisation and war.
The history traces the surgical challenges encountered
as well as the colourful characters who provided the
health services run by missions, companies, governments
and armies. After World War II PNG progressed politically
from an Australian Administered Territory to become an
Independent Nation. Within a generation it had trained its
own doctors and surgeons.
The history is set within the context of tropical
pathologies, introduced diseases, surgical progress and
the lives of the medics who have contributed to the Stori
bilong kamapim long dokta bilong katim man (The history
of surgery).view less