Migrant architects of the NHS : South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s) /

Simpson, Julian M.,

Migrant architects of the NHS : South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s) / Migrant architects of the National Health Service Julian Simpson. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) - Social histories of medicine .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Front matter; Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables and figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Healthcare and migration in Britain during the post-war period; The making of a cornerstone; Empire, migration and the NHS; Part II The colonial legacy, racism and the staffing of surgeries; The empire of the mind and medical migration; Discrimination and the development of general practice; From 'pairs of hands' to family doctors; Part III Shaping British medicine and British society. 'The more you did, the more they depended on you': memories of practice on the peripheryBeyond the surgery boundaries: doctors' organisations and activist medics; Adding to the mosaic of British general practice; Conclusion: historicising a 'revolution'; Bibliography; Primary sources; Oral history interviews conducted by author, in order of first interview; Archives; Personal collections; Journals, newspapers, newsletters and magazines; Memoirs and accounts of doctors' lives; Official publications; Hansard; Films and documentaries; Websites; Secondary sources; Index.

Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.



9781526115799 9781526115782

GBB831474 bnb

018734427 Uk


Great Britain. National Health Service --Officials and employees.


Physicians--Great Britain.
Minorities in medicine--Great Britain.
South Asians--Great Britain.
Physicians (General practice)--Great Britain.


Electronic Books.

R729 / .M547 2018