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Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48
George Campbell Gosling
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Description for Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48
Hardback. Examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians and the public. Series Editor(s): Waddington, Keir. Series: Social Histories of Medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. Payment played an important part in redefining rather ... Read more
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. Payment played an important part in redefining rather ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Social Histories of Medicine
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526114327
SKU
V9781526114327
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About George Campbell Gosling
George Campbell Gosling is Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhapton -- .
Reviews for Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48
'.an important piece of historical investigation and interpretation and this particular volume adds further not only to our knowledge of healthcare in what is now understood to be a crucial era but also to that of voluntarism and the origins of modern social work.' John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University, Social History
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