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SUMMARY:Mobilizing medicine - Eram Alam (Harvard University)
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CONTACT:Dr. Rosanna Dent
DESCRIPTION:For more than 60 years\, the United States has trained fewer p
 hysicians than it needs\, relying instead on the economically expedient op
 tion of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other co
 untries. In this talk\, I will examine the first large scale migration ini
 tiated during the Cold War with the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration
  and Nationality Act of 1965. This bill expedited the entry of Foreign Med
 ical Graduates (FMGs) from postcolonial Asian nations and directed them to
  provide care in shortage areas throughout the country in exchange for leg
 al status. Although this arrangement was conceived as a temporary measure\
 , it has become a permanent feature of the US medical system with foreign 
 physicians comprising a quarter of the total physician labor force. This n
 eocolonial dynamic has entrenched a stratified healthcare system\; foreign
  physicians are directed to America's marginalized communities\, thereby d
 isincentivizing organized medicine from addressing the structural conditio
 ns that perpetually produce labor shortages. The ubiquitous and integral p
 resence of foreign physicians not only reveals the racialized operations o
 f US medicine\, but it also makes visible how the political economy of car
 e writ large operates in our globalized present.
LOCATION:Hopkinson Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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