Exclusions : practicing prejudice in French law and medicine, 1920-1945 / Julie Fette.

Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press, [2012], ©2012.

xi, 314 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index.

Introduction -- The nineteenth-century origins of exclusion in the professions -- Defense of the corps : the medical mobilization against foreigners and naturalized citizens -- The art of medicine : access and status -- The barrier of the law bar -- Citizens into lawyers : extra assimilation required -- Lawyers during Vichy Regime : exclusion in the law -- L'ordre des médecins : corporatist debut and anti-Semitic climax -- Conclusion : postwar continuities and the rupture of public apology.