Foreign practices [electronic resource] : immigrant doctors and the history of Canadian medicare / Sasha Mullally and David Wright.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago:
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
55 |
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Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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