- 258 pages
- English
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Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000
About this book
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 of topics ranging from children's health, mental disorders and the influence of pharmaceutical companies to the systems of twentieth century healthcare in Britain, Eastern Europe and South Africa. Covering a broad chronological, thematic and global scope, chapters discuss key themes such as how changing economies have influenced configurations of healthcare, how access has varied according to lifecycle, ethnicity and wealth, and how definitions of public and private have shifted over time.
Containing illustrations and a general introduction that outlines the key themes discussed in the volume, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private is essential reading for any student interested in the history of medicine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Public and private healthcare for the poor, 1650s to 1960s
- 3 Children’s health in public and private, 1700 to 1950
- 4 Mental disorder, crime and the development of healthcare systems
- 5 Healthcare and the design and management of public and private space: Britain, France and the US, c. 1750 to c. 1950
- 6 Private and public traditions of healthcare in Central and southeastern Europe, from the nineteenth to the (mid-)twentieth centuries
- 7 Healthcare as nation-building in the twentieth century: The case of the British National Health Service
- 8 South Africa’s mixed economy of healthcare
- 9 Pharmaceutical innovation in the public and private spheres in the twentieth century
- 10 International health between public and private in the twentieth century
- Bibliography
- Index