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Author Digby, Anne.

Title The evolution of British general practice 1850-1948 / Anne Digby
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection
Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection
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
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
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
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Subject Physicians (General practice) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Physicians (General practice) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Family medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Family medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Practice -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- Practice -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Family Practice -- history
Physicians, Family -- history
Practice Management -- history
44.62 general practice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL -- General.
MEDICAL -- History.
Family medicine
Medicine -- Practice
Physicians (General practice)
Huisartsgeneeskunde.
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198205135
0198205139
1280445149
9781280445149
9780191542305
019154230X