Financing medicine the British experience since 1750 / edited by Martin Gorsky and Sally Sheard.

Other author Gorsky, Martin, 1956-
Other author Sheard, Sally.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Medical care, Cost of--Great Britain. --History.
Delivery of Health Care--economics. --Great Britain.
Delivery of Health Care--history. --Great Britain.
Financing, Organized--history. --Great Britain.
Health Care Sector--history. --Great Britain.
History, 18th Century--Great Britain.
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
History, 20th Century--Great Britain.

SeriesRoutledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 24
Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 24. ^A491442
Contents The price of charity to the Middlesex Hospital, 1750-1830 / Bronwyn Croxson -- Charitable bodies : the funding of Birmingham's voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Reinarz -- Regional comparators in the funding and organisation of the voluntary hospital system, c.1860-1939 / Steven Cherry -- 'The caprice of charity' : geographical variations in the finances of British voluntary hospital services before the NHS / John Mohan -- Paying for the sick poor : financing medicine under the Victorian Poor Law : the case of the Whitechapel Union, 1850-1900 / Keir Waddington -- Reluctant providers? : the politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870-1914 / Sally Sheard -- The Bradford Municipal Hospital experiment of 1920 : the emergence of the mixed economy in hospital provision in inter-war Britain / Tim Willis -- Friendly society health insurance in nineteenth-century England / Martin Gorsky -- 'Strong combination' : the Edwardian BMA and contract practice / Andrew Morrice -- The economic and medical significance of the British National Insurance Act, 1911 / Anne Digby -- A double irony? : the politics of National Health Service expenditure in the 1950s / Tony Cutler -- Inequalities, regions and hospitals : the Resource Allocation.
Contents Working Party / John Welshman -- Financing health care in Britain since 1939.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2006003030
ISBN0415350255 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415350259 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0203682408 (ebk.)
ISBN9780203682401 (ebk.)

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