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Disease and Demography

continuing desire of black nurses to use nursing as an avenue to middle-class acceptability. Marks argues that internalization of white nursing values has created a divide between black nurses and the population of poor underserved black patients to whom they minister. This divide has only increased during the 1990s in response to pressure to work under increasingly oppressive conditions associated with cutbacks in health budgets and a growing imbalance between the numbers of nurses and the mushrooming numbers of patients. Overcoming this divide remains a major challenge for health services in the new South Africa. Divided Sisterhood successfully explores the attitudes and actions of nursing leaders, both white and black, and traces out the often conflicting forces that shaped their actions. It does not, however, fully explore what Marks herself refers to as 'the daily routine around the hospital bed'. We only occasionally get a sense of what it was like working as a black nurse in a white-only hospital or in the overcrowded and under-resourced wards of Baragwanath hospital. What were the dynamics of race, gender and class as they worked themselves out around the patients bedside ? What compromises did black nurses have to make on a day-today basis in order to make it in a white dominated profession? How were daily routines of shot-giving, midwiving, and the administration of medicines colored by the struggles and contradictions Marks has described ? These questions are not intended to minimize what Marks has achieved. Their purpose is instead to call attention to the need for more studies which will plumb deeper into the world of the clinic and hospital and uncover more of the day-to-day life which was shaped by the social and political world Marks has so clearly defined.