‘Not everyone can be a Gandhi’: The global Indian medical diaspora in the post-WWII era
Event details
Centre for Global Health Histories Lecture
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed and will now take place on Thursday 3 March. Apologies for any inconvenience.
From Manchester to Melbourne, from Auckland to Aberystwyth, from Detroit to Dartmouth, doctors from the Indian subcontinent dispersed throughout the Western World in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. To date, the demographic phenomenon of Indian- and other foreign-trained doctors has largely resided on the fringes of ‘national’ histories of twentieth-century health services. Adopting a global health history perspective, this lecture examines the post-war Indian medical diaspora, exploring the contemporary impact and historical legacy of this remarkable circulation of health care practitioners.
Other lecture in this series include:
- From colonial times to independence: The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950
- Eugenics as a secular religion
- Trial and evolution: Chemotherapy for tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-1970
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed and will now take place on Thursday 3 March. Apologies for any inconvenience.