The Political economy of health care : where the NHS came from and where it could lead / Julian Tudor Hart
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TextPublication details: Bristol : Polity Press, 2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvi, 319 p. 24 cmISBN: - 9781847427830
- 362.10941 HAR
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| 362.10941 FAR Trends in the National Health Service / | 362.10941 HAM Health policy in Britain : | 362.10941 HAN Health policy and politics / | 362.10941 HAR The Political economy of health care : | 362.10941 JON Professional power and the need for health care / | 362.10941 WIL Health and economics : | 362.10942 LIN Socialized medicine in England and Wales : |
Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its current forced return to the market. His starting point is a detailed analysis of how clinical decisions are made. He explores the changing social relationships in the NHS as a gift economy, how these may be affected by reducing care to commodity status, and the new directions they might take if the NHS resumed progress independently from the market. This new edition of this bestselling book has been entirely rewritten with two new chapters, and includes new material on resistance to that world-wide process.
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