UNIVERSALISM AND PARTICULARISM REVISITED IMMIGRANT PHYSICIANS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION IN ISRAEL

During the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, close to a million immigrants arrived in Israel from that country. Among those who arrived during this decade were ninety-nine hundred physicians who were licensed to practice medicine in the former Soviet Union (FSU). My long-term interest i...

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Published inToward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel p. 139
Main Author JUDITH T. SHUVAL
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published UNP - Nebraska 01.01.2015
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Business
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Diagnostic methods
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Education
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Health care industry
Health professions
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Human populations
Industrial sectors
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Labor economics
Medical diagnosis
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Men
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Physicians
Population studies
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Religion
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Social sciences
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Universalism
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Summary:During the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, close to a million immigrants arrived in Israel from that country. Among those who arrived during this decade were ninety-nine hundred physicians who were licensed to practice medicine in the former Soviet Union (FSU). My long-term interest in the sociology of the professions, and more specifically, the medical professions, led me to launch an in-depth, longitudinal study of immigrant physicians from the fsu focusing on the dynamics of their entry into the Israeli health-care system (Shuval 1983, 1985; Shuval and Bernstein 1997). Heitlinger (1996) has noted that situations of social
ISBN:9780803271944
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DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1d9nnjh.12