1st Edition
Polish Refugee Doctors in Britain War, Migration and the Globalisation of Medicine
1. Introduction: Medical migration in historical perspective 2. Medics on the move. Polish refugee doctors during the Second World War 3. From allies to aliens. The reception of Polish medical refugees in Britain 4. Poland is not yet lost. Refugee defiance towards Nazis and Communists 5. Poland in exile. Medical refugees and the global Polish diaspora 6. Cooperation or competition? Polish refugee doctors and other diasporas 7. Beyond the brain drain. The global dispersion of Polish medical refugees 8. Legacies and lessons. The Polish School of Medicine in Edinburgh
Biography
Michał Adam Palacz is a transnational historian of medicine and migration. Originally from Gdynia, Poland, he studied modern global history in Bremen, Germany, and in 2016 received a PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh. He then joined Oxford Brookes University and worked on the identification of victims of unethical medical research in Nazi Germany. He is the co-editor (with Bastiaan Willems) of A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe. Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars (2022) and co-author (with Paul Weindling) of “Countless Brains”. The Neuropathological Specimens from Prisoners of War, Occupied Territories, and Nazi Executions (2026).
