LEADER 03787 am 22006613u 450 001 9910164340003321 005 20210521204907.0 010 $a9781526114358$b(electronic book) 010 $z9781526114327$b(hardback) 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526114358 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39575 035 $a(DE-B1597)659443 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526114358 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001058918 100 $a20170220h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPayment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 /$fGeorge Campbell Gosling 210 $cManchester University Press$d2017 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) $cmap, charts, portraits 225 1 $aSocial histories of medicine 311 08$aPrint version: 9781526114327 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book uses a case study of the wealthy southern city of Bristol as the starting point for the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 questions what it meant to be asked to contribute financially to the hospital by the medical social worker, known then as the Lady Almoner, or to subscribe to a pseudo-insurance hospital contributory scheme. It challenges the false assumption that middle-class paying patients crowded out the sick poor. Hopes and fears, at the time and since, that this would have an empowering or democratising effect or that commercial medicine would bring about the end of medical charity, were all wide of the mark. In fact, payment and philanthropy found a surprisingly traditional accommodation, which ensured the rise of universal healthcare was mitigated and mediated by long-standing class distinctions while financial contribution became a new marker of good citizenship. Anyone interested in these changing notions of citizenship, charity and money, as well as the hospital as a social institution within the community in early twentieth-century Britain, will find this book a valuable companion" --OAPEN. 410 0$aSocial histories of medicine. 606 $aMedical care$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMedical care, Cost of$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMedical fees$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 610 $acommercial medicine 610 $anhs 610 $anational health service 610 $abritish healthcare 610 $apayment 610 $amedical charity 610 $ahospitals 610 $ahealthcare 610 $aAlmoner 610 $aBristol 610 $aLondon 610 $aMiddle class 610 $aVoluntary hospital 610 $aWorking class 615 0$aMedical care$xHistory 615 0$aMedical care, Cost of$xHistory 615 0$aMedical fees$xHistory 615 0$aSocial medicine$xHistory 676 $a362.10941 700 $aGosling$b George Campbell$0941441 712 02$aManchester University Press, 912 $a9910164340003321 996 $aPayment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48$92123635 997 $aUNINA