Australia's Toxic Medical Culture International Medical Graduates and Structural Power /

This book explores dominance in Australia's medical culture through the positioning of international medical graduates (IMGs). It argues that IMGs are 'othered' and ultimately positioned as an underclass, a positioning validated and reinforced by the intersecting inequalities of class...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pascoe, Vicki Adele (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Public health administration.
Social policy.
Political planning.
Human Migration.
Cultural Studies.
Health Administration.
Social Policy.
Public Policy.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Welcome to Australia, the Land of a Fair Go For All
  • Chapter 1:The Pathway to Find the Voices
  • Chapter 2:The Lucky Country: IMGs and the History of Ethnocentricism, Xenophobia and Racism
  • Chapter 3:Policies, Processes, Poppycock and Dimensions of Power: Structural, Hegemonic and Interpersonal
  • Chapter 4:Medical Dominance and the Creation of Toxic Culture
  • Chapter 5: The Representation of IMGs as Problematic
  • Chapter 6: IMGs and Intersecting Inequalities, Class, Race and Nation
  • Conclusion: Where to From Here? Transformation or a Very Wicked Problem.

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