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Author:   Chris Locke
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9781032572000

ISBN 10:   1032572000
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   08 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. An Uncertain Profession: GPs’ Struggle for Identity and Status in the Nineteenth Century 3. Professional Representation: ‘The Battle of the Clubs’ and the Fight for Autonomy, 1880-1911 4. ‘The Political Doctor is Now Born’: Lloyd George and the Doctors’ Revolt, 1911-1913 5. Inauspicious Beginnings: Medical Trade Unionism, the Great War, and Early Attempts at Bargained Corporatism, 1913-1919 6. ‘Statutory Bodies with Martial Attitudes’: Local Medical and Panel Committees, 1913-1939 7. ‘Black-coated Bolshevists’: The Ministry of Health, Political Brinkmanship and the ‘Ideologies of Class’, 1919-1926 8. The Consolidation of National Health Insurance: Administration, ‘Red Tape’, and the Economics of Contract Practice, 1926-1939 9. Parallel Developments: GPs and the ‘Mixed Economy of Care’, 1914-1948 10. Utopian Visions: Interwar Debates about the Future of Health Services, 1920-1939 11. For Victory and Health: The Second World War, the Beveridge Report, and the Coming of the NHS, 1939-1945 12. Facing the Future? Bevan, the BMA and the Ghost of Conflicts Past, 1945-1948 Conclusion: Assessing GPs’ Political Activities and their Context Epilogue: The Legacy of Medical Professional Protest

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Chris Locke is currently an honorary research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. With postgraduate degrees in History and Law, he developed his interest in medical politics during a thirty-year career advising medical practitioners on contractual and policy matters.

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