Book ID: CBB145847782

‘Doctors for Export’: Medical Migration from Ireland c.1860 to 1960 (2021)

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This is the first full-length study of doctor migration from Ireland covering roughly a century of the export of Irish medical graduates to other parts of the world. From 1860 around forty percent of Ireland’s medical graduates left to pursue careers elsewhere. The book examines the factors which drove emigration, the shifting destinations of the emigrants and the effect of migration both upon them and the Ireland they left behind. This was the migration of a part of the Irish middle class, small in terms of Irish emigration as a whole, but important in the global history of medical migration. At the end of the twentieth century doctor migration as a whole has increased and become a significant part of the medical experience. The book is a contribution to the growing literature on the global history of doctor movements across the world.

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Review Ian Miller (2023) Review of "‘Doctors for Export’: Medical Migration from Ireland c.1860 to 1960". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 163-165). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Greta
Kelly, Laura
Mike Murphy
William J. Smyth
John Crowley
Simpson, Julian M.
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Emigration; immigration
Women in medicine
Medical education and teaching
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
Ireland
United States
Great Britain
South Asia
Arctic regions
Belfast, Ireland
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
American Medical Association
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