The political economy of health care

Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its current forced return to the market. His starting point is a detailed analysis of how clinical decisions are made. He explores the changing social relationships in the NHS as a gift economy, how these may be affected by reducing care to commodity status, and the new directions they might take if the NHS resumed progress independently from the market.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

סדרה

Health & society series

הוצאה

Policy Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

319

ISBN

9781847428998

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata