Between resentment and aid: German and Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist refugees in Great Britain since 1933.

Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9441330 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1744-5213 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0964704X NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Hist Neurosci Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2013- : London : Routledge
Original Publication: London : Smith-Gordon,

Emigration and Immigration/*history ; Jews/*history ; National Socialism/*history ; Neurologists/*history ; Neurosciences/*history ; Psychiatry/*history ; Public Assistance/*history ; Racism/*history ; Refugees/*history; Austria ; Germany ; History, 19th Century ; History, 20th Century ; United Kingdom

Beveridge WH

This article is a historiographical exploration of the experiences that German and Austrian émigré psychiatrists and neurologists made in Great Britain since 1933, after the Nazi Governments in Central Europe had ousted them from their positions. When placing these occurrences in a wider historiographical perspective, the in-depth analysis provided here also describes the living and working conditions of the refugee neuroscientists on the British Isles. In particular, it looks at the very elements and issues that influenced the international forced migration of physicians and psychiatrists during the 1930s and 1940s. Only a fraction of refugee neuroscientists had however been admitted to Britain. Those lucky ones were assisted by a number of charitable, local, and academic organizations. This article investigates the rather lethargic attitude of the British government and medical circles towards German-speaking Jewish refugee neuroscientists who wished to escape Nazi Germany. It will also analyze the help that those refugees received from the academic establishment and British Jewish organizations, while likewise examining the level and extent of the relationship between social and scientific resentments in Great Britain. A special consideration will be given to the aid programs that had already began in the first year after the Nazis had seized power in Germany, with the foundation of the British Assistance Council by Sir William Henry Beveridge (1879-1963) in 1933.

Keywords: Anti-Semitism; Europe; Great Britain; William Henry Beveridge (1879–1963); assistance; forced migration; political discourses; social contexts; twentieth-century neuroscience; émigré neuroscientists

Date Created: 20160709 Date Completed: 20170309 Latest Revision: 20170309

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