The forced migration of neuroscientists, both during and after the Second World War, is of growing interest to international scholars. Of particular interest is how the long-term migration of scientists and physicians has affected both the academic migrants and their receiving environments. This edited volume, comprising eight chapters written by international specialists, reflects on the complex dimensions of intellectual migration in the neurosciences and illustrates them by using relevant case studies, biographies, and historical surveys.
Key Features
- Exploration of Migration: Examines the impact of forced migration on neuroscientists and their environments.
- Historical Context: Discusses the context of the twentieth century as a period of war and forced migration.
- Comprehensive Analysis: Features eight chapters from international specialists in the field.
- Case Studies: Utilises relevant case studies and biographies to illustrate key points.
Additional Information
As well as the clash between two different traditions and systems, this migration forced scientists and physicians to confront foreign institutional, political, and cultural frameworks when trying to establish their own ways of knowledge generation, systems of logic, and cultural mentalities. The twentieth century has been called the century of war and forced migration, since it witnessed two devastating world wars, prompting a massive exodus that included many neuroscientists and psychiatrists. Fascism in Italy and Spain beginning in the 1920s, Nazism in Germany and Austria between the 1930s and 1940s, and the impact of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe all forced more than two thousand researchers with prior education in neurology, psychiatry, and the basic brain research disciplines to leave their scientific and academic home institutions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
