Böcker av Tarik Elhadd

This book is about the evolution of modern medical practices in the Sudan including curative medicine, public health, medical research, and education. It covers an important era from 1924, when the first medical school in the country was inaugurated and goes until the Independence of Sudan in 1956. The Sudan, known then as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was not officially a British colony. The British came during zenith of the ''Great Scramble for Africa'' and Kitchener''s appeal for the Gordon Memorial College set the platform for modern education in the Sudan, and following his demise, his call to establish a medical school in the country was heeded. The medical school inaugurated in 1924 became the third of its kind in Africa, which helped the mesh of expanding the service to remote parts of the country. The author and translator of more than seven books on the history of Sudanese medicine walk us through a comprehensive and authoritative description of the formative years of KSM, events,