Medicine and law
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Some of the background to the present structure of medicine in South Africa, an outline of some economic aspects of our current (inadequate) health care service and tentative suggestions regarding the directions in which our health services should be moving to facilitate the legitimization (political) and accumulation (economic) processes required to meet the needs and demands of all the people of an internationally recognized, just and free South Africa are presented.
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As a form of ritualized behaviour, the burial promotes and maintains the emotional well-being of the individual and the social cohesion of the group. Sources of burial law in Southern Africa are summarized and the present legal situation with regard to burial is given in some detail. ⋯ From paleolithic times to the present, man has responded to the death of his fellow man with solemnity and ceremony. The event of death has evoked not only a religious awe in men, but its threat to the survival of communal life has also engendered fear, just as its disruption of family life has aroused sorrow.'