Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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852742
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Main Entry
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Gosling, George Campbell
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Title & Author
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Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 /\ George Campbell Gosling.
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Publication Statement
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Manchester :: Manchester University Press,, [2017]
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Series Statement
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Social histories of medicine
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Page. NO
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xi, 221 pages :: illustrations
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ISBN
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1526114321
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: 1526114356
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: 9781526114327
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: 9781526114358
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9781526114334
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9781526114341
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9781526114358
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.
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Contents
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Introduction -- 1 Payment in the history of healthcare -- 2 Medicine and charity in Bristol -- 3 Payment and the sick poor -- 4 Middle-class medicine -- 5 The meaning of payment -- Conclusion.
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Abstract
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This title examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians, and the public.
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Subject
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Social medicine-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Subject
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Health and Fitness.
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Subject
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Health and Wellbeing.
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Subject
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History of medicine.
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Subject
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Social cultural history.
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Subject
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Social medicine.
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Subject
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Health Expenditures-- history.
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Subject
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Health Services-- history.
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Subject
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Charities-- history.
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Subject
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History, 20th Century.
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Subject
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Hospitals-- history.
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Subject
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United Kingdom.
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Subject
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Great Britain.
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Dewey Classification
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362.10941
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LC Classification
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RA418.3.G7G67 2017
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NLM classification
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2017 E-357
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W 74 FA1
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Added Entry
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Society for the Social History of Medicine.
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