{"product_id":"posters-protests-and-prescriptions-cultural-histories-of-the-national-health-service-in-britain-9781526163462","title":"Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe National Health Service has provided Britain’s healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its inception and has undergone a number of complex reforms and restructures. But the meanings of the NHS are not only – or even primarily – lived out in politics. Nearly every Briton comes into contact with the NHS – from cradle to grave – and this system of healthcare shapes society, culture and everyday life.  This book charts these multiple meanings, looking at the NHS as a site of work, activism and consumerism, as a space and in cultural representations. Looking in these ways, the book shows how and why the NHS has become a symbol of Britishness and an object of fierce protectiveness, even love, today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is the first book to address the NHS using a cultural studies framework. It produces rich and complex evidence of change over time across popular attachments and social meanings and attitudes, while demonstrating the value of new approaches to visual and material sources.'\u003cbr\u003eStephanie Snow, Professor of Health, History and Policy, University of Manchester\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Work\u003cbr\u003e1 The making of ‘NHS staff’ as a worker identity, 1948–85 – Jack Saunders\u003cbr\u003e2 Sick notes are a waste of time: doctors’ labour and medical certification at the birth of the NHS – Gareth Millward\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Activism\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘Loving’ the NHS: social surveys and activist feelings – Jennifer Crane\u003cbr\u003e4 The everyday work of hospital campaigns: public knowledge and activism in the UK’s National Health Services – Ellen Stewart, Kathy Dodworth and Angelo Ercia\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Consumerism\u003cbr\u003e5 Consuming health? Health education and the British public in the 1980s – Alex Mold\u003cbr\u003e6 Customers who don’t buy anything!: the introduction of free dispensing at Boots the Chemists – Katey Logan\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Space\u003cbr\u003e7 The cultural significance of space and place in the NHS – Angela Whitecross\u003cbr\u003e8 ‘Bright-while-you-wait’? Waiting rooms and the National Health Service, \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1948–58 – Martin D. Moore\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Representation\u003cbr\u003e9 Representation of the NHS in the arts and popular culture – Mathew Thomson\u003cbr\u003e10 ‘If it hadn’t been for the doctor, I think I would have killed myself’: ensuring adolescent knowledge and access to healthcare in the age of Gillick – Hannah Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003ePart VI: International\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘A spawning of the nether pit’? Welfare, warfare and American visions of Britain’s National Health Service, 1948–58 – Roberta Bivins\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: ‘I’m afraid [,] there’s no NHS’ – Sally Sheard\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041028604247,"sku":"9781526163462","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526163462.jpg?v=1750948662","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/posters-protests-and-prescriptions-cultural-histories-of-the-national-health-service-in-britain-9781526163462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}