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Foreign practices : immigrant doctors and the history of Canadian medicare

Author: Sasha Mullally; David Wright
Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 55.
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Mullally, Sasha.
Foreign practices.
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020
(OCoLC)1176569940
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sasha Mullally; David Wright
ISBN: 9780228003717 0228003717 9780228003724 0228003725
OCLC Number: 1141515084
Description: xviii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 55.
Responsibility: Sasha Mullally and David Wright.

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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  Read more...

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"Now more than ever, we need scholarship which lifts the history of medicine out of national silos and sets it in proper global context. Mullally and Wright give an expert demonstration of this Read more...

 
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