Learning soft skills the hard way: Historiographical considerations on the cultural adjustment process of German-speaking émigré neuroscientists in Canada, 1933 to 1963

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Frank W Stahnisch

Abstract

This article is a historiographical exploration of the special forms of knowledge generation and knowledge transmission that occur along local cultural boundaries in the modern neurosciences. Following the inauguration of the so-called "Law on the Re-Establishment of a Professional Civil Service" in Nazi Germany on April 7, 1933, hundreds of Jewish and oppositional neurologists, neuropathologists, and psychiatrists were forced out of their academic positions, having to leave their home countries and local knowledge economies and traditions for Canada and the United States. A closer analysis of their living and working conditions will create an understanding of some of the elements and factors that determined the international forced migration waves of physicians and clinical neuroscientists in the twentieth century from a historiographical perspective. While I am particularly looking here at new case examples regarding the forced migration during the National Socialist period in Germany, the analysis follows German-speaking émigré neurologists and psychiatrists who found refuge and settled in Canada. These individuals form an understudied group of refugee medical professionals, despite the fact that the subsegments of refugee n...Continue Reading

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Feb 9, 2016·Journal of the History of the Neurosciences·Bernd Holdorff
Jul 9, 2016·Journal of the History of the Neurosciences·Stephen Pow, Frank W Stahnisch
Jul 9, 2016·Journal of the History of the Neurosciences·Aleksandra Loewenau
Apr 12, 2019·Journal of the History of the Neurosciences·Anzo Nguyen, Frank W Stahnisch
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