The department of
Social Studies of Medicine invites you to a seminar with Dr. David
Wright
“Global Health Histories and the
Transnational Migration of Physicians
in the Twentieth Century”
Abstract: The
transnational migration of physicians is one of the most important and
controversial topics in global health policy and ethics. A recent article in the
British Medical Journal concluded that Canada has benefitted by an amount
of almost 400 million dollars at the expense of sub-Saharan African countries
alone, whose doctors emigrated by the thousands over the last generation. The
controversy over this physician ‘brain drain’, however, is not of recent origin.
Throughout the post-WWII era, Canada,
Britain, Australia, the United States and New Zealand were suffering from what
they considered to be severe doctor and nurse shortages, due in part to
pressures of population growth, the increasing specialization of medical
practice, and the gradual implementation of state-run health insurance systems.
In response, western governments liberalized what had previously been
restrictive rules on immigration and the licensing of Foreign Medical Graduates
(FMGs), triggering an international circulation of physicians and nurses that
continues to this day. The resultant migration of hundreds of thousands of
skilled medical personnel transformed the health care landscape of ‘recipient’
and ‘source’ countries. This paper seeks to address this historical and
important transnational phenomenon utilizing new approaches in global health
history and focusing in particular on the transnational migration of physicians
in the 1960s and 70s.
Wednesday,
October 17th, 2012 at 3: 30pm, 3647 Peel
Street - Don Bates Seminar Room 101.
For further
information please see the attached flyer or consult our website: www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcoming-seminars-events
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