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Migrant Architects of the Nhs - South Asian Doctors Reinvention of British General Practice 1940s

English · Hardback

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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.

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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'
Bibliography
Index

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

Authors Julian Simpson, Julian M. Simpson
Assisted by Keir Waddington (Editor)
Publisher Manchester University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.03.2018
 
EAN 9781784991302
ISBN 978-1-78499-130-2
No. of pages 336
Series Social Histories of Medicine
Social Histories of Medicine
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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