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 in | Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel p. 139 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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UNP - Nebraska
01.01.2015
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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 |
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ISBN: | 9780803271944 0803271948 |
DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctt1d9nnjh.12 |