New Releases by Anne Digby

This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and ''western'' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between ''western'' and indigenous medicine is analysed through an exploration of the evolving practices of healers, missionaries, doctors and nurses. The book considers the extent to which there was a strategic crossing of boundaries in the construction of hybrid practices by these practitioners, and the extent to which patients pursued health by sampling diverse care options. Starting with missionary penetration during the early nineteenth century, the volume outlines interventions by the colonial state in medicine and public health, and the continued resilience of indigenous healing in the face of this. The book ends by relating past to present in scrutinising the legacy of historical structures - including those of the apartheid state - for current health care, and in briefly discussing the huge challenges that the HIV/Aids pandemic poses in impacting on them. The book thus provides an inclusive history of medicine for the ''New'' South Africa.

A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.

A follow-on from Enid Blyton''s four Naughtiest Girl books. Elizabeth is appointed monitor again, but one of the 2nd form boys is turning all of the other boys against her. Elizabeth decides to investigate with the help of her friends - can she find out who has a grudge against her and why?

This book focuses on a formative period in the development of modern general practice. The foundations of present-day health care in Britain were created in the century before the National Health Service of 1948, when medicine was transformed in its structure, professional status, economic organization, and therapeutic power. In the first full-length study of general practice for these years, Anne Digby deploys an impressive range of hitherto unused archival material and oral testimony to probe the character of general practitioners careers and practices, and to assess their relationships with local communities, a wider society, and the state. An evolutionary approach is adopted to explain the origins and nature of the many changes in medical practice, and the lives of ordinary doctors. The study also explores the gendered nature of medical practice as reflected in the experience of a golden band of women GPs, and examines the hidden role of the doctors wife in the practice.

Anne Digby takes Enid Blyton''s character on a new adventure. When her friend John asks her to keep his secret. Elizabeth finds herself in worse trouble than ever - and she is completely innocent. 7 yrs+

A classic school series with timeless appeal - in new adventures by Anne Digby. Elizabeth longs to star in the school play, so she knows she can''t afford to be naughty ...

A classic school series with timeless appeal - in new adventures by Anne Digby. Elizabeth is desperate to play the piano at the school concert. But only one girl can be chosen and Arabella is practising hard ...

This volume brings together the first three stories in the Trebizon series, First Term at Trebizon, Second Term at Trebizon and Summer Term at Trebizon, describing the adventures of Rebecca and her friends at Trebizon school.

When Rupert, Rose and Richie are blamed for something they haven''t done, they realise they must solve the mystery and find the real culprits. Readers can test their own powers of deduction by spotting clues within the story and illustrations.