Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes
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Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes

Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa

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Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes

Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa

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The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2, 000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the award Woman of the Year in 1984 from the South African newspaper The Star, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. For the creation of this biography, Erika Sutter spent many hours with the author, her friend Gertrud Stiehle, telling the story of her long life vividly, with a sharp eye for social issues, a hint of self-irony, and dry wit. Her account does not ignore events in the wider world. She experienced life on the Swiss-German border during the Second World War, and her years of working in South Africa were those when the apartheid policies of the South African Government were becoming more and more repressive, affecting many aspects of life in the country.

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Publisher
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Year
2014
ISBN
9783905758474
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medicine Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. A healer and torch bearer
  6. Preface
  7. In lieu of an introduction: Immersing myself in the life of Erika Sutter
  8. I. The Roots
  9. II. Childhood and Adolescence
  10. III. University Studies duringWorld War II and starting in a profession
  11. IV. Preparing for Africa
  12. V. The Path to Ophthalmology
  13. VI. Head of the Eye Hospitalin Elim
  14. VII. The most meaningful years in Erika’s life: The Care Groups
  15. VIII. Retirement and the return to Basel
  16. IX. A final look back and forward
  17. Illustrations
  18. Bibliography
  19. Back cover