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Autore |
Gorsky Martin |
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Titolo |
Mutualism and health care [[electronic resource] ] : British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century / / Martin Gorsky and John Mohan, with Tim Willis |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-142-3 |
1-84779-216-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National health services - Great Britain |
Mutualism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction; Chapter 2; Chapter 1; The emergence of hospital contributory schemes; Chapter 3; Mass contribution and hospital finance in inter-war Britain; Chapter 4; The geography of hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration; Chapter 5; Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy?; Chapter 6; Contributory schemes, working-class governors and local control of hospital policy; Chapter 7; The 'impending cataclysm': the state and hospital contribution, 1941-46; Chapter 8; The contributory schemes and the coming of the National Health Service |
Chapter 9'Where the shoe pinches': reorientation under the National Health Service; Chapter 10; The health cash plans and the new mutualism in health care; Chapter 11; Concluding comments; Index; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain's acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory |
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