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General Practice under the National Health Service, 1948-1997 - The First Fifty Years (Hardcover, New)
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General Practice under the National Health Service, 1948-1997 - The First Fifty Years (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first history of general practice under the National
Health Service, from 1948 to the present. It is written by a team
of contributors all of whom have, in various ways, been deeply
involved in the development of primary health care in Britain.
Between them, they cover all the main aspects of general practice,
including changing concepts of illness and clinial practices,
politics and organization, medical education, public relations, and
international comparisons. They examine how the relative stagnation
of the early years, when morale and funding were low, gave way to a
renaissance in general practice in the 1960s which changed the
service out of all recognition. // Published with an extensive
chronology and statistical appendix, this book will serve as an
essential reference for medical historians and for the wide variety
of people involved in health-care services, both in Britain and the
wider world. fifty years, from 1948 to the present. It is written
in a clear and accessible manner by a team of distinguished medical
historians, many of whom are, or have been, general practitioners
deeply involved in the development of primary health care services
in this country. The book covers all the main aspects of general
practice, including changing concepts of illness and clinical
practices, politics and organization, medical education, public
relations, and international comparisons. Between them, the
contributors show how the oldest branch of medicine gradually
rediscovered its role alongside the rapid advances of specialized
medicine. They explain how, after a period of relative stagnation
in the 1960s, there followed a renaissance in general practice
which changed the service out of all recognition. Published with an
extensive chronology and statistical appendix, this book will serve
as an essential reference for medical historians as well as the
wide variety of people involved in the health care services.
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