Financing Medicine : The British Experience Since 1750 (Hardcover)

1. Introduction. 2. The price of charity to the Middlesex Hospital, 1750-1830. 3. Charitable bodies: the funding of Birmingham’s voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth century. 4. Regional comparators in the funding and organisation of the voluntary hospital system, c.1860-1939. 5. 'The Caprice of Charity': geographical variations in the finances of British voluntary hospital services before the NHS. 6. Paying for the Sick Poor: Financing Medicine under the Victorian Poor Law, the case of the Whitechapel Union, 1850-1900. 7. Reluctant providers? The politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870-1914. 8. The Bradford Municipal Hospital experiment of 1920: the emergence of the mixed economy in hospital provision in inter-war Britain. 9. Friendly society health insurance in nineteenth-century England. 10. 'Strong combination': the Edwardian BMA and contract practice. 11. The economic and medical significance of the British National Insurance Act, 1911. 12. Financing health care in Britain since 1939. 3. A double irony? The politics of National Health Service expenditure in the 1950s. 14. Inequalities, regions and hospitals: the Resource Allocation Working Party.