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Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000 book cover

1st Edition

Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000

Edited By Paul Weindling Copyright 2015
272 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations,  The History of Healthcare in Public and Private  examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres. This book considers a comprehensive range... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

PAUL WEINDLING

2 Public and Private Health Care for the Poor, 1650s to 1960s

ELIZABETH HURREN AND STEVEN KING

3 Children’s Health in Public and Private, 1700-1950

ALYSA LEVENE

4 Mental Disorder, Crime and the Development of Healthcare Systems

KATHERINE D. WATSON

5 Health Care and the Design and Management of Public and Private Space: Britain, France and the US, c. 1750-c. 1950

TOM CROOK

6 Private and Public Traditions of Health Care in Central and South-eastern Europe, from the Nineteenth to the (Mid-) Twentieth Centuries

MARIUS TURDA

7 Healthcare as Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century:
The Case of the British National Health Service

GLEN O’HARA AND GEORGE CAMPBELL GOSLING

8 South Africa’s Mixed Economy of Health Care

ANNE DIGBY

9 Pharmaceutical Innovation in the Public and Private Spheres in the Twentieth Century

VIVIANE QUIRKE

10 International Health between Public and Private in the Twentieth-Century

PAUL WEINDLING

Bibliography

Biography

Weindling, Paul

"This rich, engaging, and highly innovative volume places the "mixed economy of health care"—the interplay of public, private, and philanthropic interests in the provision of health care—at the center of health care history. Moving from the 17th century through the late 20th century and traversing Britain, Europe, the U.S., and South Africa, Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000 will be a welcome and refreshing addition to undergraduate syllabi in the history of medicine."

Dominique Tobbell, University of Minnesota, USA

"Curated, edited, introduced, and concluded by renowned medical historian Paul Weindling, this volume is a collection of insightful, carefully crafted essays by a group of cutting-edge UK scholars. With a primary emphasis on the UK, North America, and Western Europe, contributors explore what can be characterized as a 'mixed economy of healthcare,' i.e., the interrelationships among governmental, private/philanthropic, and marketplace-driven dynamics of providing populations with health care. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels."

I. Richman, emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Campus, CHOICE Review

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