{"product_id":"payment-and-philanthropy-in-british-healthcare-1918-48-9781526114327","title":"Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. Payment played an important part in redefining rather than abandoning medical philanthropy, based on class divisions and the notion of financial contribution as a civic duty. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith new insights on the scope of private medicine and the workings of the means test in the hospital, as well as the civic, consumer and charitable meanings associated with paying the hospital, Gosling offers a fresh perspective on healthcare before the NHS and welfare before the welfare state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘…an important piece of historical investigation and interpretation and this particular volume adds further not only to our knowledge of healthcare in what is now understood to be a crucial era but also to that of voluntarism and the origins of modern social work.’\u003cbr\u003eJohn Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University, Social History\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Payment in the history of healthcare\u003cbr\u003e2 Medicine and charity in Bristol \u003cbr\u003e3 Payment and the sick poor \u003cbr\u003e4 Middle-class medicine \u003cbr\u003e5 Th e meaning of payment \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040983023959,"sku":"9781526114327","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/payment-and-philanthropy-in-british-healthcare-1918-48-9781526114327","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}