Posters, protests, and prescriptions : Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain

Posters, protests, and prescriptions Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain

The 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...

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Otros Autores: Bivins, Roberta, contributor (contributor), Crane, Jennifer, contributor (editor), Crane, Jennifer, editor, Dodworth, Kathy, contributor, Ercia, Angelo, contributor, Hand, Jane, contributor, Hand, Jane, editor, Logan, Katey, contributor, Millward, Gareth, contributor, Mold, Alex, contributor, Moore, Martin D., contributor, Saunders, Jack, contributor, Sheard, Sally, contributor, Stewart, Ellen, contributor, Thomson, Mathew, contributor, Whitecross, Angela, contributor, Elizabeth, Hannah J., contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : : Manchester University Press [2022]
Colección:Social Histories of Medicine ; ; 34
Materias:
Great Britain. > National Health Service > History.
Great Britain. > National Health Service
Public health > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Public health > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Work
  • 1 The making of 'NHS staff' as a worker identity, 1948-85
  • 2 Sick notes are a waste of time
  • Part II: Activism
  • 3 'Loving' the National Health Service
  • 4 The everyday work of hospital campaigns
  • Part III: Consumerism
  • 5 Consuming health? Health education and the British public in the 1980s
  • 6 Customers who don't buy anything! The introduction of free dispensing at Boots the Chemists
  • Part IV: Space
  • 7 The cultural significance of space and place in the National Health Service
  • 8 'Bright-while-you-wait'? Waiting rooms and the National Health Service, c. 1948-58
  • Part V: Representation
  • 9 Representation of the National Health Service in the arts and popular culture
  • 10 'If it hadn't been for the doctor, I think I would have killed myself'
  • Part VI: International
  • 11 'A spawning of the nether pit'? Welfare, warfare, and American visions of Britain's National Health Service, 1948-58
  • Epilogue
  • Select bibliography
  • Index

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