Title Foreign practices : immigrant doctors and the history of Canadian medicare / Sasha Mullally and David Wright

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 55 McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 55 Contents Medical Practice in Postwar Canada -- Commonwealth Connections -- Medical Manpower -- The Points System -- Medical Diasporas -- The Brain Drain -- Satisfying Rural Health Needs -- Doctors for the New North and Old Industry -- Too Many Doctors Summary "When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight for social justice obscures other important aspects of the construction of Canada's national health insurance--especially its longstanding dependence on immigrant doctors. Foreign Practices reconsiders the early history of Medicare through the stories of foreign-trained doctors who entered the country in the three decades after the Second World War. By making strategic use of oral history, analyzing contemporary medical debates, and reconstructing doctors' life histories, Sasha Mullally and David Wright demonstrate that foreign doctors arrived by the hundreds at a pivotal moment for health care services. Just as Medicare was launched, Canada began to prioritize "highly skilled manpower" when admitting newcomers, a novel policy that drew thousands of professionals from around the world. Doctors from India and Iran, Haiti and Hong Kong, and Romania and the Republic of South Africa would fundamentally transform the medical landscape of the country. Charting the fascinating history of physician immigration to Canada, and the ethical debates it provoked, Foreign Practices places the Canadian experience within a wider context of global migration after the Second World War."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2020) Subject Physicians, Foreign -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Physicians -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Immigrants -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Medical care -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Foreign Medical Graduates -- history Physicians -- history Emigrants and Immigrants -- history Delivery of Health Care -- history MEDICAL -- History. Immigrants Medical care Physicians Physicians, Foreign Canada Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Wright, David, 1965- author ISBN 9780228004929 0228004926 9780228003717 0228003717 9780228003724 0228003725

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