Article ID: CBB000932801

Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960: Introduction (2009)

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Weindling, Paul J. (Author)


Social History of Medicine
Volume: 22
Pages: 451--459


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue: Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960
Language: English

This collection of papers considers the experience of medical refugees in Britain and the wider world. The collection owes its inception to the significant role of refugees in the modernising of British medicine in terms of medical provision, and medical research. But it is clear that the refugee situation can only be understood in international terms. Displaced physicians looked---with increasing desperation---throughout the world for locations where their skills might be valued, or at least for a place of safety from worsening Nazi persecution. Britain had a key role, as registration of professional qualifications in Britain had implications for admission to practise in the various Dominions and colonies, and British policies were decisive for admission to its Palestine Mandate. While Britain was important as a place of safety and staging-post for onward migrants and temporary exiles, it became a new home for thousands of displaced medical practitioners. Vigorous scientific and humane support for medical refugees clashed with professional restrictionism and animosity against alien practitioners, as diluting an insular medical tradition. The refugee experience varied enormously, and it renders the situation complex and open to differing interpretations.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Shepherd, Michael (2009) The Impact of Germanic Refugees on Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry. Social History of Medicine (p. 461). unapi

Article Zamet, John (2009) The Anschluss and the Problem of Refugee Stomatologists. Social History of Medicine (p. 471). unapi

Article Zalashik, Rakefet; Davidovitch, Nadav (2009) Professional Identity across the Borders: Refugee Psychiatrists in Palestine, 1933--1945. Social History of Medicine (p. 569). unapi

Article Weindling, Paul (2009) Medical Refugees and the Modernisation of British Medicine, 1930--1960. Social History of Medicine (p. 489). unapi

Article Collins, Kenneth (2009) European Refugee Physicians in Scotland, 1933--1945. Social History of Medicine (p. 513). unapi

Article Pross, Christian (2009) The Attitude of German Émigré Doctors towards Medicine under National Socialism. Social History of Medicine (p. 531). unapi

Article Villiez, Anna von (2009) The Emigration of Women Doctors from Germany under National Socialism. Social History of Medicine (p. 553). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Aleksandra Loewenau
S. Carlisle May
Simpson, Julian M.
Zamet, John
Zalashik, Rakefet
Wincewicz, Andrzej
Concepts
Medicine
Emigration; immigration
Physicians; doctors
World War II
Medicine and politics
Refugees
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Great Britain
United States
South Asia
Hamburg (Germany)
England
Institutions
Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung
British Medical Association
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Uniwersytet Jagielloński (Cracow)
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