Gorsky / Mohan / Willis Mutualism and health care

Hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84779-216-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gorsky, Martin

Mohan, John

Willis, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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