Financing Medicine

The British Experience Since 1750
Herausgeber: Gorsky, Martin; Sheard, Sally

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Produktbeschreibung

Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major issues: Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did? What were the ramifications of these arrangements for the nature and extent of health care before the NHS? The book also goes on to explore the 'lessons' and legacies of the past which bear upon developments under the NHS. The contributors to this volume provide a sustained and detailed examination of the model of health care which preceded the NHS - an organization whose distinctive features hold such fascination for the scholars of health systems - and their insights illuminate current debates on the future of the NHS. For students and scholars of the history of medicine, this will prove essential reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781138867956
• ISBN-10: 1138867950
• Artikelnr.: 42091820

Autorenporträt

Martin Gorsky is Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary History of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He most recently co-authored Mutualism and Health Care: hospital contributory schemes in twentieth century Britain. Sally Sheard is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at the University of Liverpool. She co-edited Body and City: histories of urban public health. Her most recent co-authored book is The Nation's Doctor: the role of the Chief Medical Officer, 1855-1998.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction PART I Voluntary funding and the growth of hospital care 212
The price of charity to the Middlesex Hospital, 1750-1830 3 Charitable
bodies: the funding of Birmingham's voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth
century 4 Regional comparators in the funding and organisation of the
voluntary hospital system, c.1860-1939 5 'The caprice of charity':
geographical variations in the finances of British voluntary hospital
services before the NHS PART II Local government and medical institutions 6
Paying for the sick poor: financing medicine under the Victorian Poor Law -
the case of the Whitechapel Union, 1850-1900 7 Reluctant providers? The
politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870-1914 8 The
Bradford Municipal Hospital experiment of 1920: the emergence of the mixed
economy in hospital provision in inter-war Britain PART III General
practice and health insurance 9 Friendly society health insurance in
nineteenth-century England 10 'Strong combination': the Edwardian BMA and
contract practice 11 The economic and medical significance of the British
National Health Insurance Act, 1911 PART IV Contemporary issues 12 A double
irony? The politics of National Health Service expenditure in the 1950s 13
Inequalities, regions and hospitals: the Resource Allocation Working Party
14 Financing health care in Britain since 1939