| 词条 | Michael Gelfand |
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| name = Michael Gelfand | birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1912|1|1}} | birth_place = Wynberg, South Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1985|7|12|1912|1|1}} | death_place = Harare, Zimbabwe | residence = Rhodesia/Zimbabwe | nationality = South Africa | field = Medicine, Physician | work_institution = Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine | alma_mater = University of Cape Town | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = working as a tropical medic | prizes = Order of the Knighthood of St. Sylvester, OBE, CBE | religion = Jewish | footnotes= }}Michael Gelfand OBE, CBE, Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester, was one of Zimbabwe's most distinguished colonial medical practitioners, who received a Papal Order of the Knighthood of St. Sylvester.[1] Gelfand was noted for a humanistic approach to medicine, and for his historical and ethnographic works, which are considered to have played an important role in his reexamination of significant colonial prejudices he held about African peoples, culture, and religious practices.[2][3] Gelfand was born in Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1912, of immigrant Lithuanian parents, and he died on 12 July 1985, while attending a patient in the Avenues Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. Gelfand was a practitioner of Judaism.[4] After qualifying in South Africa and working there and in England, in 1939 he joined the then-Southern Rhodesia Medical Service as Physician, Pathologist and Radiologist. He had married a Bulawayan, Esther Kollenberg, whom he had met at the University of Cape Town. When their first of three daughters was due, they joined Esther's family in Rhodesia. Once in government service, he quickly gained a reputation by being the only doctor to correctly diagnose the illness of the wife of the Head of the Medical Services. In 1955, he founded the Central African Journal of Medicine with Joseph Ritchken, and remained its co-editor for many years.[5] In 1962, he joined the then-University of Rhodesia as founding Professor of African Medicine. From 1970 until his retirement, in 1977, he was Professor and Head of Department of Medicine, and thereafter Emeritius Professor and Senior Clinical Research Fellow. He was a prolific writer: 330 articles and monographs in various journals on topics ranging from medicine, ethics, philosophy, history and religion, to Shona custom, religion and culture, with titles including "Migration of African Labourers in Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1890 - 1914)"[6] He wrote more than 30 books, amongst them The Sick African and Livingstone, the Doctor. Esther Gelfand, his widow, still lives in Harare, in the same house they shared together for many years. EducationGelfand attended Wynberg Boys' High School and obtained his degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1936. His further medical training was in London.[7] CareerHe was professor and chair of the department of medicine at the University of Zimbabwe and founded the Central African Journal of Medicine. His works on rheumatic diseases, including those featured in The Sick African (1944), have been used as a reference for further study of rheumatic diseases in Africa and complications related to tuberculosis, HIV, and other diseases.[8] Research interests
BooksAn incomplete list of Gelfand's works is found below.
References1. ^{{cite web|archivedate=2010-08-13|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813180157/http://www.btinternet.com/~zimdocs/gelfand1.html|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~zimdocs/gelfand1.html|title=Professor Michael Gelfand (1912 - 1985)|accessdate=2009-01-13}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gelfand, Michael}}2. ^{{cite web|last1=Ncube|first1=Glen|title=Medicine wedded to African humanism|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-08-medicine-wedded-to-african-humanism/|website=mg.co.za|publisher=Mail & Guardian|accessdate=2014-10-29|ref=4}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Braude|first1=Hillel David|title=Colonialism, Biko and AIDS: A reflection on the principal of beneficence in South African medical ethics|journal=Social Science and Medicine|date=2009|volume=68|pages=2053–2060|url=http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6277/braude_South_Africa.pdf|accessdate=2014-10-29|doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.019|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029181352/http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6277/braude_South_Africa.pdf|archivedate=2014-10-29|df=}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Ehrlich|first1=Mark Avrum|title=Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, Volume 1|date=2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781851098736|pages=518–520}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Lives of the Fellows, Volume VIII|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1730|website=rcplondon.ac.uk|publisher=Royal College of Physicians of London|accessdate=2014-10-29}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Robin H.|last2=Parsons|first2=Neil|title=The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520033184|pages=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wz6lKAI9Gp0C&pg|accessdate=2014-10-29}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~zimdocs/gelfand.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813180953/http://www.btinternet.com/~zimdocs/gelfand.html|archivedate=2010-08-13|title=Michael Gelfand Medical Research Foundation|accessdate=2009-01-13}} 8. ^{{cite journal|last1=McGill|first1=P. E.|last2=Njobvu|first2=P.D.|title=Rheumatology in Sub-Saharan Africa|journal=Clinical Rheumatology|date=2001-05-01|volume=20|issue=3|pages=163–164|doi=10.1007/s100670170057}} 19 : 1912 births|1985 deaths|White South African people|South African Jews|South African people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent|South African emigrants to Rhodesia|White Zimbabwean people|Health in Africa|University of Cape Town alumni|Alumni of Wynberg Boys' High School|Rhodesian Jews|Zimbabwean Jews|Rhodesian physicians|Zimbabwean physicians|University of Zimbabwe faculty|People from Harare|White Rhodesian people|Rhodesian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent|Rhodesian writers |
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