Ebook: Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48
Author: Gosling George Campbell
- Tags: Social medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Social medicine, Great Britain, Health and Fitness, Health and Wellbeing, Health Expenditures -- history, Health Services -- history, Hospitals -- history, Charities -- history, History 20th Century, United Kingdom
- Series: Social histories of medicine.
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- City: Great Britain., United Kingdom.
- Language: English
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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.