Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 /

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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-dep...

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Main Author:	Gosling, George Campbell
Corporate Authors:	Walter de Gruyter & Co, Society for the Social History of Medicine
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Manchester, MI : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:	Social histories of medicine.
Subjects:	Social medicine > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Social medicine. Medical care, Cost of. Social Medicine Health Care Costs Social Medicine > history United Kingdom Médecine sociale. Soins médicaux > Coût. Social & cultural history. History of medicine. MEDICAL / History. Medical care, Cost of Social medicine Great Britain 1900-1999 commercial medicine nhs national health service british healthcare payment medical charity hospitals healthcare Electronic books. History
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Summary:	This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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 than abandoning medical philanthropy, based on class divisions and the notion of financial contribution as a civic duty. With new insights on the scope of private medicine and the workings of the means test in the hospital, as well as the civic, consumer and charitable meanings associated with paying the hospital, Gosling offers a fresh perspective on healthcare before the NHS and welfare before the welfare state.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : black and white illustrations, map
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.
ISBN:	9781526114341 9781526114327 1526114321 1526114356 9781526114358 1526114348