Contagious Communities - Medicine, Migration, and the Nhs in Post War Britain

A new study on the connections between migration and the NHS; a topical look at migration, race and politics in post-war Britain.

List of contents

• Introduction: Medicine, Migration, and the Afterimage of Empire


• Part I: Tuberculosis in Black and White: Medicine, Migration, and Race in 'Open Door' Britain


• 1: Suspicions and 'Susceptibility': The Tuberculous Migrant, 1948-1955


• 2: Contained but not Controlled: Public Discontents, International Implications


• Part II: 'At Once a Peril to the Population': Immigration, Identity, and 'Control'


• 3: Smallpox, 'Social Threats', and Citizenship, 1961-6


• 4: 'Slummy Foreign germs': Medical 'Control' and 'Race Relations', 1962-1971


• Part III: Chronically Ethnic: The Limits of Integration in the Molecular Age


• 5: Ethnicity, Activism and 'Race Relations': From 'Asian Rickets' to Asian Resistance, 1963-1983


• 6: Genetically Ethnic? Genes, 'Race', and Health in Thatcher's Britain


• Conclusion: Contagious Communities and Imperial Afterimages


• Bibliography

About the author

Roberta Bivins (BA Columbia; PhD MIT) is a historian of medicine at the University of Warwick. Her early research examined the cross-cultural transmission of medical expertise, particularly in relation to global and alternative medicine. Since 2004, funded by the Wellcome Trust, she has studied the impacts of immigration and ethnicity on postwar British health, medical research, and practice. Her new research examines the cultural history and influence of the British National Health Service since 1948. Bivins also convenes the trans-sector and trans-disciplinary IDEA Collaboration (www.go.warwick.ac.uk/IDEACollab) for improving the delivery of ethnically aware research, practice, and policies in healthcare.

Summary

Explores how mass immigration changed British medicine and the National Health Service (NHS), and how medical claims about migrants influenced popular and political responses to them; a fascinating and topical look at migration, medicine, race, and politics in post-war Britain.

Additional text

Bivins' work is a nuanced and finely-grained account of the dynamic and often problematic relationship between two central features of post-war Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Bivins, Roberta (Associate Professor of the Histor Bivins, Roberta (Associate Professor of the History of Medicine Bivins, Roberta E. Bivins
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9780198725282
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872528-2
• No. of pages: 442
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Migration, immigration and emigration, Health systems & services, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Health systems and services, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples