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Rina Arya is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Hull. She has written widely on topics in culture and the arts. Her monograph Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World (2012) was longlisted for the W. M. Berger Art History prize in 2013. She is currently working on an extended project about cultural appropriation. Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. He was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, World Psychiatric Association and British Medical Association. In 2012 he was awarded a CBE for services to psychiatry.
'An interesting and informative book that explains the complex adjustment issues of international medical graduates in the UK. The personal experiences illustrate the motivation and dedication of the foreign doctors to pursue professional expertise in the NHS and provide examples of their hard work and insight into the significance of cultural identity, migration and marginalisation in their lives and work.' Afzal Javed, Consultant Psychiatrist, Past President World Psychiatric Association (2020-23); Honorary Professor, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK; Chairman, Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan 'When anyone in the UK suffers a major mental illness, who are you going to call? South Asian psychiatrists might stake a surprisingly vigorous claim to be the largest ethnic grouping of psychiatric specialists, responsible for the mental health of the entire nation, via the NHS. Yet they remain a neglected and unfashionable subject, often facing direct racial antagonism from their own patients. This is a scholarly, yet personal, attempt to redress the injustice of their marginalisation. How they have soldiered on despite astonishing obstacles placed in their way by the NHS, their colleagues and the regulator of the medical profession, the General Medical Council, is an important, riveting, yet timely, drama.' Raj Persaud, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Harley Street, London; author of The Mental Vaccine for Covid 19 (Amberley Press)
