Description |
1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection |
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Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection
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Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Plates, Maps, and Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1: Constructing General Practice; Rationale; Approach; An Evolutionary Framework; PART I: Careers; 2: Professional Challenge; Overcrowded Professions; Competition; Registration and Regulation; 3: Recruitment, Education, and Training; Apprentices, Pupils, and Unqualified Assistants; Recruitment, Numbers, and Provision; An Evolving Education; From Medical School to Later Practice; Conclusion; 4: Reinventing Roles; Practices; Appointments; Emigration and Immigration; War and Peace |
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ConclusionPART II: In Practice; 5: The Medical Market; Medicine as Business; Sources of Income; Expenditure; Income and Capital; Contrasting Practices; Conclusion; 6: Organizing A Practice; Assistants; Partners; A Cottage Industry; Accommodation; Technology; Conclusion; 7: Women Practitioners; Access and Training; Careers; Income; Medical Women; Public Roles; Public and Private Faces; Conclusion; 8: Medical Investigation and Treatment; Diagnosis and Prognosis; Treatment; Obstetrics; Variety in Practice; Investigation and Research; Conclusion; 9: Patients; Choices; Encounters; Cost |
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GatekeepingConclusion; PART III: A Wider World; 10: Public Duties and Private Lives; Community Niches; Public/Private Lives; Sickness, Retirement, Death; Conclusion; 11: Generalists, Specialists, and Others; Generalists and Specialists; GPs and Consultants; Towards the Professional Margin; Conclusion; 12: National Health Insurance; The Transition to NHI; Panel Doctors and Patients; Standards; Conclusion; 13: The National Health Service; Professional Involvement in Change; The NHS and its Reception; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index of Medical Names; General Index |
Summary |
Presents a study of the formative period in the development of modern general practice in the UK. This book analyses the important changes and developments in primary health care in the century before the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. It also examines the hidden role of the doctor's wife in the practice |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Physicians (General practice) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Physicians (General practice) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Family medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Family medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Medicine -- Practice -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Medicine -- Practice -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Family Practice -- history
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Physicians, Family -- history
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Practice Management -- history
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44.62 general practice.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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MEDICAL -- General.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Family medicine
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Medicine -- Practice
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Physicians (General practice)
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Huisartsgeneeskunde.
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SUBJECT |
United Kingdom |
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780198205135 |
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0198205139 |
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1280445149 |
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9781280445149 |
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9780191542305 |
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019154230X |
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