Martin Gorsky, John Mohan, Tim Willis

Mutualism and health care

Hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of the establishment and operation of hospital contributory schemes and the organisation of voluntary hospitals in Britain before the creation of the NHS.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780719065798
• ISBN-10: 0719065798
• Artikelnr.: 37743853

Autorenporträt

Martin Gorsky is Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary History of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. John Mohan is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. Tim Willis is a Research Officer in the Department for Work and Pensions

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The emergence of hospital contributory schemes 3. Mass
contribution and hospital finance in inter-war Britain 4. The geography of
hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration 5.
Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy? 6.
Contributory schemes, workmen governors and local control of hospital
policy 7. The 'impending cataclysm': the state and hospital contribution,
1941-1946 8. The contributory schemes and the coming of the NHS 9. 'Where
the shoe pinches': reorientation under the NHS 10. The health cash plans
and the new mutualism in health care 11. Concluding comments