Sasha Mullally

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Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare Volume 54Hardcover, 18 November 2020

Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare Volume 54
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Part of Series
McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
Part of Series
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
Print Length
360 pages
Language
English
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date Published
18 Nov 2020
ISBN-10
0228003717
ISBN-13
9780228003717

Description

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.

Product Details

Authors:
Sasha MullallyDavid Wright
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 November 2020
Genre:
Canadian
ISBN-10:
0228003717
ISBN-13:
9780228003717
Language:
English
Pages:
360

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