‘Doctors for Export’

Greta Jones is emeritus professor of history at Ulster University and the author of several books on Darwinism, eugenics and the history of tuberculosis. With help from the Wellcome Trust, she set up the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at Ulster University. In 2019 she was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Irish Emigration2Doctor Migration3The Internationalisation of Medicine4The Structure of the Book1 The Medical Institutions of Ireland1The Medical Registration Act 18582The Evolution of Irish Medical Education3The Hospitals4The Poor Law5Professional Organisations in Ireland and Britain6The Number of Doctors in Ireland7The Over-Production of Doctors in Ireland8Conclusion2 Making a Medical Living1General Practice in Ireland and England2General Practice in Ireland3Private Practice4The Doctors’ Boycott5Conclusion3 The British Empire1The Indian Medical Service2Far-Flung Shores3Those Who Returned4The IMS and the Scientific Mind5The Decline of the Colonial Medical Services6Conclusion4 Medicine, Migration and the Making of the Irish Middle Class1The Costs of Medical Education in Ireland2Catholics, Medicine and Social Mobility3The Catholic Middle Classes and Medicine4Income, Class and Migration5Migration, Money and the Middle-Class Family6Migration and a Medical Dynasty7Migration and Poverty8Ireland’s Intellectual Resources9Conclusion5 Partition1The Settlement in Health2The Registration Crisis3Connections Maintained4The Border with Ireland5The Future of Medicine in Ireland6The Notion of Being Irish and Emigration7Conclusion6 The Irish Doctor in Interwar Britain1The Insurance Act and Migration2The Distribution of Graduates from Irish Medical Schools3Friendship and Collegiality4The “Powerful Army” of Catholic Doctors and Practice in Britain5The Guild of SS Luke, Cosmos and Damian6Professional Integration7The Role of the State in Health Care8The National Health Service and the Irish Migrant Doctor9Conclusion7 The Lure of America1The Rockefeller Visit to Ireland2Medical Immigration to the United States3The AMA, Doctor Immigration and the Approved List4The Irish Medical Emigrant and the USA5The Approved List and the Foreign Medical Schools6Ireland and the Approved List7The Irish Medical Schools and the Irish Doctor8The End of the Approved List9Conclusion8 Inward Migration1The State and Medical Education2Medical Education in the New Era3Foreign Students4A Private Medical School in the Age of Globalisation5The Future of Irish Medical Emigration6ConclusionEpilogueAppendixBibliographyIndex

"Doctors for Export is a hugely impressive contribution to both Irish and global medical historiography. The book benefits from a truly rich level of qualitative and quantitative research and thorough analysis that is attentive to sensitive matters such as Irish identity."---- Ian Miller, in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2023) 97 (1): pp.163-165