Abstract
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.
TY - JOUR
T1 - Between resentment and aid: German and Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist refugees in Great Britain since 1933.
A1 - Loewenau,Aleksandra,
PY - 2016/7/9/entrez
PY - 2016/7/9/pubmed
PY - 2017/3/10/medline
KW - Anti-Semitism
KW - Europe
KW - Great Britain
KW - William Henry Beveridge (1879–1963)
KW - assistance
KW - forced migration
KW - political discourses
KW - social contexts
KW - twentieth-century neuroscience
KW - émigré neuroscientists
SP - 348
EP - 62
JF - Journal of the history of the neurosciences
JO - J Hist Neurosci
VL - 25
IS - 3
N2 - 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.
SN - 1744-5213
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/27388257/Between_resentment_and_aid:_German_and_Austrian_psychiatrist_and_neurologist_refugees_in_Great_Britain_since_1933_
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
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