Making a Medical Living
Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911
Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time; 24;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 August 1994
- ISBN 9780521345262
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 236x157x26 mm
- Weight 668 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.
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How did doctors make a living? Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national health insurance in 1911. It looks at public appointments in hospitals and dispensaries, office under public welfare systems, and at private practice. In this innovative study, Anne Digby makes use of new sources of information, looks at ordinary rather than &&&233;lite doctors, and analyses provincial rather than metropolitan practice. From the mid-eighteenth century medicine became more commercialised; doctors travelled to see ordinary patients, developed specialisms, and were entrepreneurial in expanding institutional forms of health care. This entrepreneurial activity helped shape English medicine into a distinctive pattern of general and specialist practice, and of public and private health care.
"...Anne Digby brings an impressive grasp of the literature of medical history and the social history of medicine and an imaginative search for fresh sources. ...this is a delightfully written and appealing example of modern scholarly work." Journal of Economic History
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. The Professional Structure of Practice: 1. Medical practitioners; 2. The context of practice; 3. Medical encounters; Part II. The Economic Dimensions of Practice: 4. The creation of surgical general practice; 5. The GP and the goal of prosperity; 6. Physicians; Part III. Patients and Doctors: 7. Medicalisation and affluent patients; 8. Office, altruism and poor patients; 9. Expanding practice with women and child patients; Part IV. Synthesis: Reflections.
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