E. L. Jones and S, J, Snow, Against the Odds: Black and Minority Ethnic Clinicians and Manchester, 1948 to 2009, Manchester: Manchester NHS Primary Care Trust in association with the CHSTM, Manchester University, 2010. Pp. xviii + 141. pound15.00. ISBN 978 0 9558971 3 9.

摘要

The place of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) health care professionals in the National Health Service (NHS) remains one of the single most understudied subjects in the post-war history of medicine. This is surprising given the scale of their presence in the delivery of health care for millions of people. Overseas trained doctors accounted for 31 per cent of medical staff in the hospital service in 1971 and 12 per cent of the student nurses and midwife population in 1977. In 1997,44 per cent of all fully registered doctors were trained overseas. This omission is not due to the want of sources that afford access to the experience of BME health professionals, their relation to the institutional structures and cultures of the health service, and place in the community and society. Sources range from newspapers and medical journals, professional and community-based organisations, institutional studies and government reports, to the memory and reflections of BME health care professionals themselves. A rapidly growing group of scholars are now engaged in excavating the voices of BME nurses and doctors and in the process recasting the narrative of post-war medicine by placing these clinicians at the centre.