The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 June 1999
- ISBN 9780198205135
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 242x163x24 mm
- Weight 766 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 plates, 12 figures, 6 maps 0
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Short description:
This is a major new study of the formative period in the development of modern general practice in the UK. Drawing upon an impressive range of hitherto unused archival material, Professor Digby analyses the important changes and developments in primary health care in the century before the creation of the National Health Service in 1948.
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This book focuses on a formative period in the development of modern general practice. The foundations of present-day health care in Britain were created in the century before the National Health Service of 1948, when medicine was transformed in its structure, professional status, economic organization, and therapeutic power. In the first full-length study of general practice for these years, Anne Digby deploys an impressive range of hitherto unused archival material and oral testimony to probe the character of general practitioners careers and practices, and to assess their relationships with local communities, a wider society, and the state. An evolutionary approach is adopted to explain the origins and nature of the many changes in medical practice, and the lives of ordinary doctors. The study also explores the gendered nature of medical practice as reflected in the experience of a golden band of women GPs, and examines the hidden role of the doctors wife in the practice.
The general practitioner has long been the mainstay of the British medical system. Ann Digby deserves our thanks for rescuing the general practitioner's history from oblivion
Table of Contents:
Constructing General Practice
Part I: Careers
Professional Challenge
Recruitment, Education, and Training
Re-inventing Roles
Part II: In Practice
The Medical Market
Organizing a Practice
Women Practitioners
Medical Investigation and Treatment
Patients
Part III: A Wider World
Public Duties and Private Lives
Generalists, Specialists, and Others
National Health Insurance
The National Health Service
Select Bibliography; Index
