ISBN:
9780191038402
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Contagious Communities : Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post War Britain
DDC:
614.442120934
Keywords:
Great Britain
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Communicable diseases 20th century
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Emigration and immigration Social aspects 20th century
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Emigration and immigration - Health aspects - Great Brtain
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Great Britain ; National Health Service
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Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; 20th century
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Great Britain ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Great Britain History 20th century
Abstract:
Explores how mass immigration changed British medicine and the National Health Service (NHS), and how medical claims about migrants influenced popular and political responses to them; a fascinating and topical look at migration, medicine, race, and politics in post-war Britain.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post-War Britain -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medicine, Migration, and the Afterimage of Empire -- 'COLOUR', 'RACE', AND 'ETHNICITY': TERMS AND TERRAINS -- ASSIMILATION, INTEGRATION, AND 'HYGIENIC CITIZENSHIP' -- MEDICINE AND MIGRATION IN THE POST-COLONIAL ERA -- PART I: TUBERCULOS IS IN BLACK AND WHITE: MEDICINE, MIGRATION, AND RACE IN 'OPEN DOOR' BRITAIN -- 1: Suspicions and 'Susceptibility': The Tuberculous Migrant 1948-1955 -- 'KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHEST': TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MAJORITY POPULATION, 1948-1958 -- IMPORTING LABOUR, IMPORTING DISEASE: EARLY RESPONSES TO THE INFECTIOUS IMMIGRANT -- Interpreting Immigrant Tuberculosis: Initial Positions and Enduring Actors -- The Media, 1950-1953 -- The Ministry (and Whitehall) 1948-1953 -- The Medical Profession, 1950-1955 -- SUSCEPTIBLE OR SUSPECT? SEEING TB IN 'COLOUR' -- Expert Perspectives -- Local Views -- Migrant Health and Party Politics -- CONCLUSION: RACIALIZING THE TUBERCULOUS MIGRANT -- 2: Contained but not Controlled: Public Discontents, International Implications -- 'THIS CONFERENCE VIEWS WITH GREAT CONCERN': THE MINISTRY UNDER PRESSURE, 1956-1957 -- Maintaining Position, Rising Above Race -- CONTROL IN THE COLD WAR: THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS -- STAC, SUSPECTS, AND SURVEYS: CRACKS IN THE STATUS QUO -- Falling Numbers, Rising Suspicions -- Immigrant Health and Border Controls: Internationalizing Domestic Health -- PUTTING OUT FIRES OR FANNING THE FLAMES? TUBERCULOSIS, 'RACE', AND MEDICALIZATION -- Racist, Realist or Race-resistant? -- 'A Habit of Inaction'? -- RIOTS, 'SUSPECTS', AND THE CAUSES OF CONTROL -- 'YOUR GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE WILLING TO CONSIDER': THE EFFORT TO EXPORT CONTROL -- POST-IMPERIAL TENSIONS.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post-War Britain""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Medicine, Migration, and the Afterimage of Empire""; ""'COLOUR', 'RACE', AND 'ETHNICITY': TERMS AND TERRAINS""; ""ASSIMILATION, INTEGRATION, AND 'HYGIENIC CITIZENSHIP'""; ""MEDICINE AND MIGRATION IN THE POST-COLONIAL ERA""; ""PART I: TUBERCULOS IS IN BLACK AND WHITE: MEDICINE, MIGRATION, AND RACE IN 'OPEN DOOR' BRITAIN""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1: Suspicions and 'Susceptibility': The Tuberculous Migrant 1948-1955""""'KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHEST': TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MAJORITY POPULATION, 1948-1958""; ""IMPORTING LABOUR, IMPORTING DISEASE: EARLY RESPONSES TO THE INFECTIOUS IMMIGRANT""; ""Interpreting Immigrant Tuberculosis: Initial Positions and Enduring Actors""; ""The Media, 1950-1953""; ""The Ministry (and Whitehall) 1948-1953""; ""The Medical Profession, 1950-1955""; ""SUSCEPTIBLE OR SUSPECT? SEEING TB IN 'COLOUR'""; ""Expert Perspectives""; ""Local Views""; ""Migrant Health and Party Politics""
Description / Table of Contents:
""CONCLUSION: RACIALIZING THE TUBERCULOUS MIGRANT""""2: Contained but not Controlled: Public Discontents, International Implications""; ""'THIS CONFERENCE VIEWS WITH GREAT CONCERN': THE MINISTRY UNDER PRESSURE, 1956-1957""; ""Maintaining Position, Rising Above Race""; ""CONTROL IN THE COLD WAR: THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS""; ""STAC, SUSPECTS, AND SURVEYS: CRACKS IN THE STATUS QUO""; ""Falling Numbers, Rising Suspicions""; ""Immigrant Health and Border Controls: Internationalizing Domestic Health""; ""PUTTING OUT FIRES OR FANNING THE FLAMES? TUBERCULOSIS, 'RACE', AND MEDICALIZATION""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Racist, Realist or Race-resistant?""""'A Habit of Inaction'?""; ""RIOTS, 'SUSPECTS', AND THE CAUSES OF CONTROL""; ""'YOUR GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE WILLING TO CONSIDER': THE EFFORT TO EXPORT CONTROL""; ""POST-IMPERIAL TENSIONS""; ""Under the Shadow of 'Control'""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""PART II: 'AT ONCE A PERIL TO THE POPULATION': IMMIGRATION, IDENTITY, AND 'CONTROL'""; ""3: Smallpox, 'Social Threats', and Citizenship, 1961-1966""; ""CLOSING THE 'OPEN DOOR': THE COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL""; ""Opening Salvos: The Debate Before Smallpox""
Description / Table of Contents:
""THE 1961-1962 SMALLPOX CRISIS: POX, POLITICS, AND THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL""""IMPORTED SMALLPOX: NOVEL OR NORMAL?""; ""SMALLPOX, POLICY, AND THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH""; ""'THE KILLER THAT SLIPPED THROUGH THE NET': POPULAR VISIONS OF THE IMMIGRANT/POX""; ""'Suspects' and Suspicions: Images and Actualities of Smallpox in Cardiff, South Wales, and Bradford""; ""Cardiff""; ""The Rhondda""; ""'An Angry City'? The Bradford Outbreak""; ""Lessons from 'Plague City': Vaccination, Assimilation, and the 'Oriental Killer'""; ""CONTROLLING CONTAGION, CONTAINING THE MEDIA: SMALLPOX IN WHITEHALL""
Description / Table of Contents:
""'This is Essentially a Commonwealth Problem': The Ministry of Health Perspective""
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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