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Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48

By George Campbell , Gosling

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781526114327, 1526114321
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4269587 bytes)
Series
Social histories of medicine.
Pages
221\235
Time added
2018-09-05 12:13:35
20th Century;United KingdomSocial medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20t

Description

This title 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. Machine generated contents note: 1.Payment in the history of healthcare -- 2.Medicine and charity in Bristol -- 3.Payment and the sick poor -- 4.Middle-class medicine -- 5.The meaning of payment.

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