How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a
starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and …

2 Introduction born in my practice. He saw me all the time and at the age of ten he had to go
to hospital for tonsillectomy… When British doctors came to see him he was astonished: he …

'One of the nurses went into a family one night and there was a very obstreperous man and
he said “We'll have none of them Irish and none of them blacks in here” so she said “Fine, no …

This chapter argues that healthcare is not only a key emerging site of everyday bordering in
the UK, but also that analysis of controls in access to healthcare for migrants offers an insight …

Nine years after the first human rights legislation came into effect, many public sector
organizations struggle to demonstrate meaningful and sustainable outcomes for protected …

Only since the 2010s have historians become interested in dimensions of the UK's National
Health Service (NHS) histories beyond institutional, policy, and political narratives and the …

The international migration of skilled medical professionals has been documented as a
'manpower'issue for health service planning since the 1960s. This paper charts the way that …

In 2013, trucks and vans were driving across London, bearing the message 'In the UK
illegally? Go home or face arrest.'These mobile billboards declared the number of arrests …

This article maps the history of health organisation across Greater Manchester (GM),
primarily since the Second World War, to show how against a continuing backdrop of health …

This paper draws on interviews conducted for a wider oral history research project that
focused on the experiences of South Asian doctors who worked as general practitioners in …