Research Catalog

Title

The National Health Service in Scotland : origins and ideals, 1900-1950 / Morrice McCrae.

Author

McCrae, Morrice.

Publication

East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland : Tuckwell Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xvi, 288 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"The blueprint for Britain's National Health Services was drawn up in Scotland. Early in the twentieth century a sense of nationalism had secured a health administration in Scotland, separate from that for the rest of Britain and able to set its own course. By 1913, the Highlands and Islands had the first comprehensive state medical service in Britain. In the depression of the 1930s, there was already a powerful consensus in Scotland, supported by a medical profession with a long-established tradition of public service, that free and comprehensive medical services must be extended across the whole country. A plan for Scotland, published in 1936, became the basis of the schemes for the National Health Services established north and south of the border in 1948."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• National Health Service in Scotland > History
• Great Britain National Health Service
• National Health Service in Scotland
• 1900-1999
• National health services > Scotland > History > 20th century
• State Medicine > history
• National health services
• National Health Service
• Gezondheidszorg
• Scotland
• Scotland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index.

Contents

• List of Tables and Figures.
• 1. Highlands and Islands Medical Service. p. 1.
• 2. Collins, Cathcart and the Distance from London. p. 30.
• 3. Cathcart Report: The Context. p. 57.
• 4. Social Conditions and Health. p. 79.
• 5. Promotion of Health. p. 102.
• 6. State Medical Services. p. 129.
• 7. Hospitals. p. 158.
• 8. General Practitioner Services. p. 180.
• 9. Publication and Response. p. 199.
• 10. Two Acts and Two Services. p. 224.
• Epilogue. p. 241.
• App. I. Should the BMA Speak for the Medical Professions?. p. 248.
• App. II. British Heatlh Statistics, 1898-1948. p. 257.
• App. III. Scottish Health Statistics, 1860-1945. p. 259.
• App. IV. Scottish Board of Health, 1919. p. 261.
• App. V. Consultative Committee on Medical and Allied Services, 1919. p. 262.
• App. VI. School Health Service: Medical Examinations. p. 263.
• App. VII. School Health Service: Dental Examinations. p. 265.
• Index. p. 279.

ISBN

• 9781862322165
• 1862322163

OCLC

• ocm53821252
• 53821252
• SCSB-1310056

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library