Simpson Migrant architects of the NHS

South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1578-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Social Histories of Medicine

Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice - and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Writing the history of the 'International' Health Service
Part I: Healthcare and migration in Britain during the post-war period
1. The making of a cornerstone
2.Empire, migration and the NHS
Part II: The colonial legacy, racism and the staffing of surgeries
3. The empire of the mind and medical migration
4. Discrimination and the development of general practice
5. From ‘pairs of hands’ to family doctors
Part III: Shaping British medicine and British society
6. ‘The more you did, the more they depended on you’: memories of practice on the periphery
7. Beyond the surgery boundaries: doctors’ organisations and activist medics
8. Adding to the mosaic of British general practice
Conclusion: Historicising a ‘revolution’
Appendix: Methodological approach
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julian M. Simpson is an independent writer, researcher and translator