Article ID: CBB417383751

Kidney Transplantation and South African Medical Hierarchies: Nursing Innovations and Inequities, 1960s–1990s (2021)

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This article focuses on female kidney transplant nurses, whose contributions, while often overlooked and underappreciated, were critical to the success of transplantation. It reveals that white and, from the 1980s onwards, Black kidney transplant nurses made two central contributions. First, they developed specialised skills in dialysis that were vital to transplant success. Second, through countless hours of close observation of post-transplant patients, nurses gained confidence and knowledge that enabled them to improve medical and care procedures initially established by medical doctors. At the same time, this article recognises that nurses's contributions were powerfully shaped by inequities of gender, race and language.

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Authors & Contributors
Noble, Vanessa
Sweet, Helen M.
Parle, Julie
Horwitz, Simonne
Wu, Ming-Jen
Yong-suk Jung
Concepts
Medicine and race
Health care
Nurses and nursing
Medicine
Women in medicine
Apartheid
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
South Africa
United States
Durban (city)
Miami (Florida)
Papua New Guinea
West Germany
Institutions
University of the Witwatersrand
University of Miami
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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