Mutualism and health care : British hospital contributory schemes in twentieth century / Martin Gorsky and John Mohan, with Tim Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorsky, Martin, 1956- author.

Mohan, John, 1958- author.

Willis, Tim (Research officer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mutualism.

Health insurance--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Health insurance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting an account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS, this book evaluates the extent to which the hospital contributory schemes were successful in achieving comprehensive coverage of the population, and explores why the option of funding the post-war NHS through mass contribution was rejected.

Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 2; Chapter 1; The emergence of hospital contributory schemes; Chapter 3; Mass contribution and hospital finance in inter-war Britain; Chapter 4; The geography of hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration; Chapter 5; Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy?; Chapter 6; Contributory schemes, working-class governors and local control of hospital policy; Chapter 7; The 'impending cataclysm': the state and hospital contribution, 1941-46; Chapter 8; The contributory schemes and the coming of the National Health Service

Chapter 9'Where the shoe pinches': reorientation under the National Health Service; Chapter 10; The health cash plans and the new mutualism in health care; Chapter 11; Concluding comments; Index; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 6, 2026).

ISBN:

1-78170-142-3

1-84779-216-2

OCLC:

818847176