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Author:   Suryakanthie Chetty
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032050830

ISBN 10:   3032050839
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   18 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Suryakanthie Chetty is a senior lecturer in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has published two books with Palgrave Macmillan: Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa: The Professional and Public Life of Jack Penn (2023), and ‘Africa Forms the Key’: Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift (2021).

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