Financing Medicine: The British experience since 1750 (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 16
Part I Voluntary funding and the growth of hospital care......Page 36
2 The price of charity to the Middlesex Hospital, 1750–1830......Page 38
3 Charitable bodies: The funding of Birmingham’s voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth century......Page 55
4 Regional comparators in the funding and organisation of the voluntary hospital system, c.1860–1939......Page 74
5 ‘The caprice of charity’: Geographical variations in the finances of British voluntary hospitals before the NHS......Page 92
Part II Local government and medical institutions......Page 108
6 Paying for the sick poor: Financing medicine under the Victorian Poor Law – the case of the Whitechapel Union, 1850–1900......Page 110
7 Reluctant providers?: The politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870–1914......Page 127
8 The Bradford Municipal Hospital experiment of 1920: The emergence of the mixed economy in hospital provision in inter-war Britain......Page 145
Part III General practice and health insurance......Page 160
9 Friendly society health insurance in nineteenth-century England......Page 162
10 ‘Strong combination’: The Edwardian BMA and contract practice......Page 180
11 The economic and medical significance of the British National Health Insurance Act, 1911......Page 197
Part IV Contemporary issues......Page 214
12 A double irony?: The politics of National Health Service expenditure in the 1950s......Page 216
13 Inequalities, regions and hospitals: The Resource Allocation Working Party......Page 236
14 Financing health care in Britain since 1939......Page 257
Index......Page 267