'Doctors for Export': Medical Migration from Ireland C.1860 to 1960

by Greta Jones

This is the first full-length study of doctor migration from Ireland covering roughly a century of the export of Irish medical graduates to other parts of the world. From 1860 around forty percent of Ireland's medical graduates left to pursue careers elsewhere. The book examines the factors which drove emigration, the shifting destinations of the emigrants and the effect of migration both upon them and the Ireland they left behind. This was the migration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004324453
• ISBN13: 9789004324459
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.