
Reviews
I have long wished for a book that comprehensively explored the history, the political machinations, and the personal experiences of foreign-trained physicians like me. The Care of Foreigners is that book. Alam's writing is clear, her research thorough, and her conclusions deeply insightful.
We've needed a book like this for a long time, and it has been worth the wait! Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Care of Foreigners is a major contribution to the histories of migration and medicine.
The Care of Foreigners is a book that finds the world in the proverbial speck of sand. The world is postcolonial and the speck of sand, US healthcare. Tragically, the sand was also wedged in the eye of US racial commonsense that scourged the careers of immigrant physicians. Alam's book is an accessible and ringing indictment of how cash-strapped postcolonial nations have subsidized the coloniality of US healthcare based as it is on the racialized extraction and subordinated use of medical skill.