Migrant architects of the NHS draws on forty-five 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.
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. -- .
By:
Julian Simpson
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9781784991302
ISBN 10: 1784991309
Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 February 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
Julian M. Simpson is an independent writer, researcher and translator
Reviews for Migrant Architects of the NHS: South Asian Doctors and the Reinvention of British General Practice (1940s-1980s)
'Easy to follow and highly recommended, Julian Simpson's book provides a clear and comprehensive account of this suddenly very topical slice of history, and does exactly what he set out to do - writes migrants back into the history of the NHS.' Anjna Harrar, British Journal of General Practice, August 2018 'The detailed individual narratives, and the author's meticulous historical and political analysis, offer a model for making sense of medical migration.' John Launer, Postgraduate Medical Journal -- .
