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Doctors beyond Borders: The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century
Laurence Monnais
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The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics. Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on this international issue, showing how foreign-trained doctors have challenged - and transformed - health policy and medical practice in countries around the world. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from immigration records and medical directories to oral histories, the contributors study topics ranging from the influence of South Asian doctors on geriatric medicine in the United Kingdom to the Swedish reaction to the arrival of Jewish physicians fleeing Nazi Germany and ... Read more
The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics. Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on this international issue, showing how foreign-trained doctors have challenged - and transformed - health policy and medical practice in countries around the world. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from immigration records and medical directories to oral histories, the contributors study topics ranging from the influence of South Asian doctors on geriatric medicine in the United Kingdom to the Swedish reaction to the arrival of Jewish physicians fleeing Nazi Germany and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442629615
SKU
V9781442629615
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Ref
99-1
About Laurence Monnais
Laurence Monnais is a professor and the Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism in the Department of History at Universite de Montreal. David Wright is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy, McGill University
Reviews for Doctors beyond Borders: The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century
`The audience of this excellent collection of essays ought to include: medical, labour, and economic historians; scholars specializing in imperial, global, and migration studies; and health policy analysts. This book should also end up on undergraduate and graduate reading lists across many fields.'
J.T.H. Connors
Canadian Journal of History vol 52:03:2017
J.T.H. Connors
Canadian Journal of History vol 52:03:2017