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Science and technology in South Africa, 1939-1946the mind at war /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Science and technology in South Africa, 1939-1946by Suryakanthie Chetty.
Reminder of title:	the mind at war /
Author:	Chetty, Suryakanthie.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	x, 312 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	ScienceHistory20th century.South Africa
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05084-7
ISBN:	9783032050847$q(electronic bk.)

Science and technology in South Africa, 1939-1946the mind at war /
Chetty, Suryakanthie.

Science and technology in South Africa, 1939-1946the mind at war /[electronic resource] :by Suryakanthie Chetty. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - x, 312 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology,2730-9738. - Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology..

1. Introduction -- 2. 'Brain-waves to beat Hitler': Science, Technology and Invention -- 3. 'Strange and wondrous things': Military Technology on Show -- 4. From Creation to Credit: Major Du Toit and the Invention of the Flail Tank -- 5. A Tale of Two Hospitals: Reconstructive Surgery and Race -- 6. Invention, Compensation and Dissemination at the Brenthurst Red Cross Military Hospital for Plastic Surgery -- 7. Man and Machine: Ernst Jokl, Aviation Medicine and 'a rational science of organism' -- 8. The Measured Mind: Aptitude Testing in the Union Defence Force -- 9. 'The amoebic beginning of a world mind...': Sharing Knowledge in a Post-war World.

This book addresses the ways in which science and technology were employed in South Africa during the Second World War. A key theme underlying the chapters is the human mind: in Chapter One, which addresses the submission of ideas to the Union Defence Force, this is the inventive mind; in Chapter Seven with its focus on aviation medicine, there is the description of human will and agency, and their ultimate subordination to technology; and in Chapter Eight which considers psychiatry, it is the measurement of the mind that is addressed on the part of medical experts. The final chapter concludes with the concept of the 'world mind' and the use of science to create a new post-war world order. Each chapter employs a case study to highlight the ways in which science and technology were interwoven with society and identity-national, racial and gendered-in wartime South Africa. The overarching theme explored is the hierarchies of knowledge creation, whether in relation to South Africa as a dominion within the British Empire, as a member of the Allies, or as a nation rife with societal tension exacerbated by the war.

ISBN: 9783032050847$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-05084-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1004917
Science
--History--South Africa--20th century.

LC Class. No.: Q127.S6

Dewey Class. No.: 509.68

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