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Social History of Medicine Advance Access originally published online on November 5, 2009
Social History of Medicine 2009 22(3):489-511; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp054
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. All rights reserved.

Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930-1960

Medical Refugees and the Modernisation of British Medicine, 1930–1960

Paul Weindling*

* Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK. E-mail: pjweindling{at}brookes.ac.uk


  Abstract

This paper reappraises the position of medical refugees in Britain between the 1930s and 1950s. Advocates of reforming British medicine in terms of its knowledge base and social provision emerged as strongly supportive of the medical refugees. By way of contrast, an élite in the British Medical Association attempted to exercise a controlling regime through the Home Office Advisory Committee. The effects of these divisions are gauged by reconstructing the complete spectrum of refugees as a total population. Applying this methodology of population reconstruction provides a corrective to the notion of a cohesive ‘medical establishment’ exercising rigid and discriminatory controls.

Keywords: medical refugees; aliens; Second World War; internment; public health; Jewish refugees; Polish government in exile; Czechoslovak government in exile


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