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Author Haynes, Douglas Melvin, author

Title Fit to practice : empire, race, gender, and the making of British medicine, 1850-1980 / Douglas M. Haynes
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 246 pages)
Series Rochester Studies in Medical History
Rochester studies in medical history
Contents Introduction -- Part 1. Inventing British medicine -- 1. Mediating Nation and Empire in the Political Landscape of British Medicine in the World, 1858-86 -- 2. Expanding the Boundaries of British Medicine to Foreign and Colonial Doctors, 1886-1919 -- 3. Autonomy and Control: Managing British Medicine in the Age of Decolonization, 1919-30 -- 4. The International Crisis of World War II and the Differential Treatment of Overseas-Trained Doctors, 1933-48 -- Part 2. Remaking British medicine -- 5. From Asset to Liability: Overseas Doctors of Color in the United Kingdom, 1955-70 -- 6. Managing the Political Problem of the Registration of Overseas Doctors, 1971-73 -- 7. Redefining Access to the Medical Register for Overseas Medical Graduates, 1972-75 -- 8. Managing a Globalized Workforce within the National Boundaries of British Medicine, 1975 -- Conclusion: Overseas Doctors Needed, but Not Wanted
Summary Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven with the institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory body of the medical profession. The GMC's management of the medical register from 1858 to 1980 offers important insight into the political underpinning of the profession, particularly when it came to regulating who was fit to practice medicine, under what conditions, and where. Technically, admission to the British medical register endowed all doctors with common rights and privileges. Yet the differential treatment of women in the nineteenth century, Jewish medical refugees during World War II, and Indian doctors both before and after decolonization reveals the persistence of hierarchies of gender, national identity, and race in determining who was fit to practice British medicine. Part 1 of the book, which spans from 1858 to 1948, focuses on the transformation of the British Empire from a destination for the surplus production of domestic medical graduates to a critical source of medical labor for Britain during wartime. Part 2 examines the postwar causes and consequences of the unprecedented globalization of the domestic profession
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Arzt. gnd
Subject Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in medical care -- Great Britain
Medical policy -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Clinical competence.
Foreign Medical Graduates -- history
Education, Medical -- history
Clinical Competence
Colonialism -- history
Social Discrimination -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
MEDICAL / History
Clinical competence
Discrimination in medical care
Medical policy -- Social aspects
Medicine
Medizin
Heilberuf
Diskriminierung
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787441385
1787441385