An examination of Ireland's advanced mid nineteenth-century health policy, focusing on the Medical Charities Act of 1851 and the Irish Poor Law Commission. Should be read by...every specialist in public administration in Ireland and England during the nineteenth century. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW **`Choice' Outstanding Academic Book of 1998** In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland there existed a system of medical relief for the poor, via a country-wide system of dispensaries, superior to any public health system in England and arguably in Europe. This book examines the dispensary system and Irish healthpolicy and administration in general, focusing upon the Medical Charities Act of 1851, which placed medical relief under the control of the Irish Poor Law Commission. The Commission's origin, motivation and effect (for example onepidemic control, cholera and famine) are analysed in detail, together with the pre-famine medical charities it replaced and the reorganised poor law system, taking the story through to 1872. The argument is set firmly in the context of the pattern of government growth, of British medical politics as a whole, and of British policy in Ireland; it also shows how the Irish experience influenced developing British policies on health provision. R.D. CASSELL is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

"Ethik und Affentliches Gesundheitswesen" wendet sich an alle mA1/4ndigen und an der Struktur und Ethik des Affentlichen Gesundheitswesens interessierten BA1/4rger, vor allem aber an Mediziner und Medizinpolitiker, GesundheitsAkonomen, Philosophen, Ethiker und Politiker und an die Vertreter der VerbAnde im Gesundheitswesen. Die BeitrAge dieses Buches leisten einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion A1/4ber die Kostenexplosion im Gesundheitswesen und seine notwendige Reform. Die ethischen Aspekte der PatientenmA1/4ndigkeit und der VorzA1/4ge einer marktwirtschaftlichen Reform werden besonders herausgestellt. Durch einen Vergleich mit den Gesundheitssystemen der USA, der UdSSR, Frankreichs und Englands gewinnt die gegenwArtige Diskussion in der Bundesrepublik an Konturen.

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++York University Law School LibraryCTRG97-B2743Includes index.London: Butterworth, 1911. xxx, 143, 11 p.: forms; 26 cm