Czech Anesthesiologists on Their Way to the Netherlands: Motives, Expectations, and (Dis) Engagement (1968–1970)

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.38145/2023.4.599" target="_blank" >10.38145/2023.4.599</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Anesthesiologists on Their Way to the Netherlands: Motives, Expectations, and (Dis) Engagement (1968–1970)

Original language description

In 1970, the Third European Congress of Anaesthesiology was held in Prague. Paradoxically, many leading Czech and Slovak representatives of the field were absent, having emigrated to the West, predominantly to the Netherlands, following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. This emigration, however, did not result in Czechoslovak anaesthesiologists being entirely disconnected from their former colleagues or losing touch with the domestic development of medicine. Despite the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, medical knowledge continued to be exchanged between the West and the East. The congress exemplified how Western anaesthesiologists could meet their Soviet bloc counterparts. Informal contacts, crucial for Czechoslovak (future) migrants, facilitated knowledge dissemination. These contacts with Dutch anaesthesiologists, who became a &apos;window to the world,&apos; enabled them to join European or global medical-scientific networks. The study probes why a significant number of anaesthesiologists emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the Netherlands post-1968, their integration into Dutch society, and their recognition. It questions whether they engaged with the Czechoslovak expatriate community or primarily focused on their profession and relationships with Dutch colleagues. Using anaesthesiology as a lens, the study illustrates how these doctors, having emigrated during 1968-1970, established themselves professionally in Dutch society. They shared a strong professional identity, which assumed a transnational and partly denationalized form. Their medical vocation, along with the experience of living in socialist Czechoslovakia for twenty years, led to a reluctance to partake in exile activities for the &apos;homeland cause,&apos; a sentiment not fully understood by some of the 1948 migrants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Hungarian historical review

ISSN

2063-8647

e-ISSN

2063-9961

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

599-625

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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