What is known. A substantial body of qualitative and quantitative reports bears witness to the existence of racism in British medicine. . Migrant and minority ethnic doctors and aspiring doctors have been discriminated against when applying for jobs or entry into medical school, have tended to be concentrated in low-status medical specialties such as psychiatry, care for the elderly and general practice and in geographical areas deemed less desirable. More generally, they have faced racism in their working lives. . Progress towards addressing racism in the NHS has been slow. What this paper adds. Demonstrates the value of using oral history interviews to explore the experiences of overseas-born South Asian GPs. Doctors' narratives provide evidence of how certain BME and migrant doctors have historically been able to confront racism or avoid its manifestations. . A reframing of racism in medicine as racism and 'heterophobia', understood here as the fear of difference, which supports an engagement with the spectrum of behaviours and practices that the term encompasses and a more nuanced appreciation of the nature of racism. . A reflection on the ways in which BME and migrant doctors are able to operate successfully in a discriminatory environment. A suggestion that these insights have the potential to inform individual, collective and institutional strategies aimed at countering discrimination.

Customarily, modern critics discuss the Garden of Adonis in terms of Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene; but considering Spenser's willingness to publish the first three books of his poem as a separate unit, we may assume that the narrative, the allegory, and the philosophy of each of those three books are sufficiently self-contained to stand alone. And this means that the Garden of Adonis episode would stand in relation to the original concluding situation of Book III as the House of Holinesse stands to the final situation of Book I, or the Castle of Alma to the destruction of Acrasia's Bower.