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GPs, politics and medical professional protest in Britain, 1880-1948

Title
GPs, politics and medical professional protest in Britain, 1880-1948 / Chris Locke.
Author
Locke, Chris, 1958-
Publication
  • New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
  • ©2024

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Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
Routledge studies in modern British history
Uniform Title
Routledge studies in modern British history.
Alternative Title
General practitioners, politics and medical professional protest in Britain, 1880-1948
Subject
  • Great Britain. Ministry of Health
  • Physicians (General practice) > Political activity > Great Britain
  • Family medicine > Political aspects > History > Great Britain > 19th century
  • Family medicine > Political aspects > History > Great Britain > 20th century
  • National health services > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • National health services > Great Britain > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).
Contents
An uncertain profession : GPs' struggle for identity and status in the nineteenth century -- Professional representation : 'The battle of the clubs' and the fight for autonomy, 1880-1911 -- 'The political doctor is now born' : Lloyd George and the doctors' revolt, 1911-1913 -- Inauspicious beginnings : medical trade unionism, the Great War, and early attempts at bargained corporatism, 1913-1919 -- 'Statutory bodies with martial attitudes' : local medical and panel committees, 1913-1939 -- 'Black-coated Bolshevists' : the Ministry of Health, political brinkmanship and the 'ideologies of class', 1919-1926 -- The consolidation of national health insurance : administration, 'red tape', and the economics of contract practice, 1926-1939 -- Parallel developments : GPs and the 'mixed economy of care', 1914-1948 -- Utopian visions : interwar debates about the future of health services, 1920-1939 -- For victory and health : the Second World War, the Beveridge Report, and the coming of the NHS, 1939-1945 -- Facing the future? Bevan, the BMA, and the ghost of conflicts past, 1945-1948 -- Conclusion : assessing GPs' political activities and their context -- Epilogue : GPs in the NHS : the legacy of medical professional protest.
ISBN
  • 9781003438274
  • 100343827X
  • 9781003800750
  • 1003800750
LCCN
2023027725
OCLC
2023027725
Author
Locke, Chris, 1958- author.
Title
GPs, politics and medical professional protest in Britain, 1880-1948 / Chris Locke.
Publisher
New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Copyright Date
©2024
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Routledge studies in modern British history
Routledge studies in modern British history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).
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Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Taylor & Francis
Other Form:
Print version: Locke, Chris, 1958- GPs, politics and medical professional protest in Britain, 1880-1948 New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781032572000 (DLC) 2023027724
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