Wolf Gabrielle
Dr Gabrielle Wolf, Senior Lecturer, Deakin Law School.
J Law Med. 2018 Oct;26(1):61-88.
In 1937, the Medical Board of Victoria (the Board) declined to register Moritz Meyer to practise medicine in Victoria, Australia. Meyer was a Jewish doctor who had completed his medical degree in Germany and obtained postgraduate qualifications in Scotland. Meyer successfully challenged the Board's decision in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Board's appeal against that decision to the High Court of Australia, which was dismissed. In response to Meyer's victory, the Board, under the influence and together with the British Medical Association, successfully lobbied the Victorian Parliament to prevent doctors from practising medicine in Victoria unless they had completed their studies in Victoria or in a country in which Victorian doctors, by virtue of their registration in Victoria, were entitled to practise medicine. Meyer's case received substantial press coverage, but historians have referred to it only in passing. This article fills a notable gap in the historiography about this period by illuminating the significance of Meyer's matter. It analyses the decisions in this case and considers their impact on European doctors who sought refuge in Victoria immediately before, during and after World War II, and on the medical profession and lay community. It then seeks to explain these reactions to Meyer's matter.
1937年，维多利亚医学委员会（以下简称“委员会”）拒绝为莫里茨·迈耶注册，使其无法在澳大利亚维多利亚州行医。迈耶是一名犹太医生，他在德国完成了医学学位，并在苏格兰获得了研究生学历。迈耶成功地在维多利亚最高法院对委员会的决定提出质疑，而委员会就该决定向澳大利亚高等法院提起的上诉也被驳回。作为对迈耶胜利的回应，在英国医学协会的影响下，委员会成功游说维多利亚议会，规定除非医生在维多利亚州或凭借在维多利亚州的注册有权在当地行医的国家完成学业，否则不得在维多利亚州行医。迈耶的案件受到了媒体的大量报道，但历史学家只是顺带提及。本文通过阐明迈耶事件的重要性，填补了这一时期历史编纂学中一个显著的空白。它分析了该案件的判决，并考虑了这些判决对二战前、二战期间及二战后在维多利亚州寻求避难的欧洲医生，以及对医学专业人士和普通民众的影响。然后试图解释对迈耶事件的这些反应。
