Financing medicine
Subtitle: the British experience since 1750
By: edited by Martin Gorsky and Sally Sheard.
Contributors: Gorsky, Martin, 1956-; Sheard, Sally.
Series: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine -- 24.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780415350259; 9780203682401
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The price of charity to the Middlesex Hospital, 1750-1830 / Bronwyn Croxson; title: Charitable bodies : the funding of Birmingham's voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Reinarz; title: Regional comparators in the funding and organisation of the voluntary hospital system, c.1860-1939 / Steven Cherry; title: 'The caprice of charity' : geographical variations in the finances of British voluntary hospital services before the NHS / John Mohan; title: Paying for the sick poor : financing medicine under the Victorian Poor Law : the case of the Whitechapel Union, 1850-1900 / Keir Waddington; title: Reluctant providers? : the politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870-1914 / Sally Sheard; title: The Bradford Municipal Hospital experiment of 1920 : the emergence of the mixed economy in hospital provision in inter-war Britain / Tim Willis; title: Friendly society health insurance in nineteenth-century England / Martin Gorsky; title: 'Strong combination' : the Edwardian BMA and contract practice / Andrew Morrice; title: The economic and medical significance of the British National Insurance Act, 1911 / Anne Digby; title: A double irony? : the politics of National Health Service expenditure in the 1950s / Tony Cutler; title: Inequalities, regions and hospitals : the Resource Allocation.; title: Working Party / John Welshman; title: Financing health care in Britain since 1939.