Exclusions : Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920-1945.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Exclusion in the Professions -- 2. Defense of the Corps: The Medical Mobilization against Foreigners and Naturalized Citizens -- 3. The Art of Medicine: Access and Status -- 4. The Barrier of the Law Bar -- 5. Citizens into Lawyers: Extra Assimilation Required -- 6. Lawyers during the Vichy Regime: Exclusion in the Law -- 7. L'Ordre des Médecins: Corporatist Debut and Anti-Semitic Climax -- Conclusion: Postwar Continuities and the Rupture of Public Apology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers persuaded the French state to enact exclusionary legislation banning naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality.
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Discrimination in employment -- France -- History -- 20th century. Lawyers -- France -- History -- 20th century. Physicians -- France -- History -- 20th century. Professions -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century.