VIRTUAL BOOK TALK | Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare - Sasha Mullally and David Wright

Join Sasha Mullally and David Wright for a special launch of their book, Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare. This is a hybrid in-person and virtual event hosted by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.

Sasha Mullally is professor of history and associate dean at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of New Brunswick. David Wright is professor of history and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at McGill University.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Foreign Practices reconsiders the early history of Medicare through the stories of foreign-trained doctors who entered the country in the three decades after the Second World War. By making strategic use of oral history, analyzing contemporary medical debates, and reconstructing doctors' life histories, Sasha Mullally and David Wright demonstrate that foreign doctors arrived by the hundreds at a pivotal moment for health care services. Just as Medicare was launched, Canada began to prioritize "highly skilled manpower" when admitting newcomers, a novel policy that drew thousands of professionals from around the world. Doctors from India and Iran, Haiti and Hong Kong, and Romania and the Republic of South Africa would fundamentally transform the medical landscape of the country.