The political economy of health care: Where the NHS came from and where it could lead - Brossura

Tudor Hart, Julian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847427820 ISBN 13: 9781847427823

Casa editrice: Policy Press, 2010

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With a foreword by Tony Benn. 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. This edition of this bestselling book has been entirely rewritten with two new chapters, and includes new material on resistance to that world-wide process. The essential principle in the book is that patients need to develop as active citizens and co-producers of health gain in a humanising society and the author's aim is to promote it wherever people recognise that pursuit of profit may be a brake on rational progress.

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Dr Julian Tudor Hart was born of medical parents in 1927. His teenage ambition was to become a general practitioner serving a coal mining community, and developing practical ideas for a future socialist society. After five years as a GP in North Kensington he was apprenticed to two famous epidemiologists, Richard Doll and Archie Cochrane. Returning to general practice in a South Wales valley community, he combined clinical work with epidemiological research supported by the Medical Research Council, and led by his wife Mary. He has published four previous books and many papers in peer-reviewed journals, visited many countries as a lecturer or visiting professor, and served as an elected member of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is an Honorary Fellow of four Universities, a former president of the UK Socialist Health Association, and now president of the SHA in Wales.

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• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847427820
• ISBN 13: 9781847427823
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 336