MIGRATION OF MEDICAL ELITES AND SCIENCE CIRCULATION IN FRANCE
Résumé
This paper explores the mechanisms of transformations triggered by the Algerian war in France: in the university hospital setting, in the biomedical research and in the preventive and curative care for populations. In the middle of the twentieth century, on the French administrative territory, they were half a dozen medical faculties (giving a medical doctorate), including the faculty of Algiers (Alger), which were added medical schools. At the independence of Algeria (between Evian agreements and July 1962), in the process of migrating civilian French population (from several cultural backgrounds), it should be noted the massive departure of known actors of the national and international medical and scientific field. These men and a few women had titles, were at the head of the medical services or they were becoming. They thus became sociopolitical issues in Algeria as in France. Our subject concerns the French hexagon and how the conflict has transformed the medical community by providing deterritorialized actors which reconnected through exchange networks; they also brought new professional standards.