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, race and nati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pascoe, Vicki Adele
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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