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Posters, protests, and prescriptions : Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain / / ed. by Jennifer Crane, Jane Hand.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social Histories of Medicine ; ; 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. National Health Service--History.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. National Health Service.
- Public health--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Public health.
- Public health--Great Britain--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 14 black & white illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : : Manchester University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The National Health Service has provided Britain's healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its inception and has undergone a number of complex reforms and restructures. But the meanings of the NHS are not only - or even primarily - lived out in politics. Nearly every Briton comes into contact with the NHS - from cradle to grave - and this system of healthcare shapes society, culture and everyday life. This book charts these multiple meanings, looking at the NHS as a site of work, activism and consumerism, as a space and in cultural representations. Looking in these ways, the book shows how and why the NHS has become a symbol of Britishness and an object of fierce protectiveness, even love, today.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Work
- 1 The making of 'NHS staff' as a worker identity, 1948-85
- 2 Sick notes are a waste of time
- Part II: Activism
- 3 'Loving' the National Health Service
- 4 The everyday work of hospital campaigns
- Part III: Consumerism
- 5 Consuming health? Health education and the British public in the 1980s
- 6 Customers who don't buy anything! The introduction of free dispensing at Boots the Chemists
- Part IV: Space
- 7 The cultural significance of space and place in the National Health Service
- 8 'Bright-while-you-wait'? Waiting rooms and the National Health Service, c. 1948-58
- Part V: Representation
- 9 Representation of the National Health Service in the arts and popular culture
- 10 'If it hadn't been for the doctor, I think I would have killed myself'
- Part VI: International
- 11 'A spawning of the nether pit'? Welfare, warfare, and American visions of Britain's National Health Service, 1948-58
- Epilogue
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-6347-0
- OCLC:
- 1338651150
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