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Healthcare in Northern Ireland, 1921-73 : politics, policies and management / Donnacha Seán Lucey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucey, Donnacha Seán, author.
- Series:
- Social Histories of Medicine Series
- Social histories of medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Medical care.
- National health services--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- National health services.
- Health care reform--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Health care reform.
- Public health--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Public health.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Donnacha Seán Lucey is a Research Manager at the College of Business and Law, University College Cork.
- Summary:
- This book provides insights into the politics, policies and management of healthcare in Northern Ireland from Irish partition in 1921 to the reorganisation of the services in 1973. It covers the interwar era, reforms of the 1940s, and creation and operation of the National Health Service, especially the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Overview of Northern Ireland's healthcare
- Notes
- Chapter 1: Irish partition and poor law reform in Northern Ireland
- Poor law reform prior to Irish partition
- Poor law reform and the Irish Revolution
- Workhouse infirmaries
- Why did Northern Ireland fail to reform the poor law?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Municipal healthcare and maternity and child welfare and the limits of labour: a case study of Belfast Corporation
- Politics and the potential of labour
- Medical officer of health and plans for growth
- Political and medical opposition
- Central government intransigence
- Further crisis
- Chapter 3: Voluntarism and hospitals in interwar Northern Ireland
- What were voluntary hospitals?
- Ulster unionism and medical voluntarism
- Voluntary hospitals, integration and academisation of medicine
- A divided health system
- Voluntarism and government
- Medical voluntarism, county infirmaries and continued independence
- Contribution schemes: a vehicle for working-class participation and increased democratisation?
- Entitlement to voluntary care
- Key themes from Section 1
- Chapter 4: Reform, regionalisation and the creation of the National Health Service
- Wartime, the Emergency Hospital Service and creeping state intervention
- The first state-run hospital - Central Emergency Hospital
- Hospital policy, regionalisation and post-war planning
- Select Committee on Health Services and policy proposals
- A nationalised health service for Northern Ireland? - concessions and dilution of state influence
- Notes.
- Chapter 5: Limitations of reform: division, fragmentation and resistance
- The Hospitals Authority membership and continuation of traditional elites
- Hospital Management Committees - unionist power and nationalist isolation
- Hospital management committees and the lack of integration
- Former voluntary hospital disenchantment, local opposition and increased politicisation of hospital policies
- Calls for reform
- Chapter 6: The quest for modernity: centralisation, managerialism and reorganisation
- Post-war growth in services
- Northern Ireland as a site of experimentation and modernity: Altnagelvin Hospital and Nuffield Experimental Unit
- Limits to modernity
- O'Neillism and modernisation
- Northern Ireland's Hospital Plan, 1966
- Nationalist opposition and unionist division
- Shifting power in Northern Irish hospitals
- Hawnt Report and creeping managerialism
- Integration and the outbreak of the Troubles
- Why did Northern Ireland reform?
- Select bibliography
- Primary sources
- The National Archives of the United Kingdom (TNA)
- Newspapers
- Official publications
- Post-1921 Northern Ireland Government
- Post-1921 Ireland, Oireachtas, Dáil Éireann
- Contemporary publications
- Secondary readings
- Thesis
- Books
- Journal articles and book chapters
- Internet sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-5261-1981-1
- 9781526119810
- OCLC:
- 1579272251
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