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Reconstructive surgery and modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africathe professional and public life of Jack Penn /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reconstructive surgery and modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africaby Suryakanthie Chetty.
Reminder of title:	the professional and public life of Jack Penn /
Author:	Chetty, Suryakanthie.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023.
Description:	viii, 356 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Plastic surgeonsBiography.South Africa
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38673-2
ISBN:	9783031386732$q(electronic bk.)

Reconstructive surgery and modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africathe professional and public life of Jack Penn /
Chetty, Suryakanthie.

Reconstructive surgery and modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africathe professional and public life of Jack Penn /[electronic resource] :by Suryakanthie Chetty. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - viii, 356 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history,2947-9150. - Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history..

Chapter One: Introduction -- Part 1: The Face of War -- Chapter Two: Beginnings -- Chapter Three: The Making of a Surgeon -- Chapter Four: The Restoration of a Lost Soul: War -- Chapter Five: A Divine Right to Look Human: Brenthurst and Beyond -- Chapter Six: The Post-War Years: Going Solo -- Part 2: The Surgeon Ambassador -- Chapter Seven: The Heart of Darkness? Albert Schweitzer and Lambarene -- Chapter Eight: Fallen Blossoms: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nagashima and an Engagement with Modernity -- Chapter Nine: "The Brotherhood of Pain": Israel -- Part 3: Utopia? -- Chapter Ten: "A Multitude of Differing Genes": Intellect, Education and Equality -- Chapter Eleven: "He is My Younger Brother": Nationalism, Independence and the Cold War -- Chapter Twelve: A Utopian Vision: Jack Penn's Brave New World.

This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn's private practice, and his work in diverse countries, including Gabon, Japan and Israel, as he sought to rectify the injury caused by conflict. It also addresses his role on the President's Council, established by Prime Minister P.W. Botha to introduce reform to the system of apartheid. Penn's career is contextualised by modernisation which was a significant feature of twentieth-century South Africa. It was linked with race from the inception of the state in 1910 with racial segregation and paternalism. Penn's work during the Second World War was part of a "modernist" bent by the state under Jan Smuts to take the lead in promoting science and technological development - which continued during apartheid. Modernisation was also fluid with state priority shifting between the two poles of development and security as apartheid policies were met with hostility both within the state and beyond its borders. Within the context of decolonisation, increasing black urbanisation required a balancing act on the part of the state to uphold the ideology of racial distinction while simultaneously addressing economic challenges - and this was reflected in the reform initiatives under Botha. Plastic and reconstructive surgery as evident in the work of Jack Penn is intertwined with this narrative of apartheid, modernisation and reform. It demonstrated Western prowess, with medicine and development a perceived bulwark against Communism. It also served as a means for the modernising apartheid state to initiate, maintain or enhance alliances with other states in the facing of mounting isolation and international condemnation. The career of Jack Penn, then, is a lens through which the contradictions, complexities and anxieties of twentieth-century South Africa are exposed. Suryakanthie Chetty is Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She published her book, Africa Forms the Key: Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift, with Palgrave in 2021.

ISBN: 9783031386732$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-38673-2doiSubjects--Personal Names:

958490
Penn, Jack.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

958491
Plastic surgeons
--South Africa--Biography.

LC Class. No.: RD27.35.P46

Dewey Class. No.: 617.95092

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