Julian Simpson

Migrant architects of the NHS (eBook, ePUB)

South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Migrant Architects draws on 45 oral history interviews and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the National Health Service was made.

It tells the story of migrant South Asian doctors who became general practitioners in the NHS. Imperial legacies, professional discrimination and an exodus of UK-trained doctors combined to direct these doctors towards work as GPs in some of the most deprived parts of the UK. In some areas, they made up over half of the general practitioner workforce. The NHS was structurally dependent on them and they shaped British society and medicine through their agency.

This book is aimed at students and academics with interests in the history of immigration, immigration studies, the history of medicine, South Asian studies and oral history. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about how Empire and migration have contributed to making Britain what it is today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526115799
• Artikelnr.: 57473490

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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