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Making a Medical Living - Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911 (Hardcover, New)
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Making a Medical Living - Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720-1911 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
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How did doctors make a living? Making a Medical Living explores the
neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning
with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national
health insurance in 1911. It looks at private practice and how this
was supplemented by public appointments. In this innovative study,
Anne Digby makes use of new archival sources of information to
produce a compelling picture of ordinary rather than elite doctors,
and of the dynamics of provincial rather than metropolitan
practice. From the mid-eighteenth century doctors travelled to see
ordinary patients, developed specialisms and expanded institutions.
Despite limitations in treatment, doctors raised demand for their
services as illuminating case studies of women, children, the poor
and the affluent show. But doctors did not limit their own numbers,
and were largely unsuccessful in restricting competition from other
practitioners, with the significant exception of women.
Consequently, many GPs struggled to make a living by seeing
numerous patients at low fees. Doctors' entrepreneurial activity
thus helped shape English medicine into a distinctive pattern of
general and specialist practice, and of public and private health
care.
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