Making a Medical Living Hardback: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911: 24 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 24) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 052134526X ISBN 13: 9780521345262

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

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A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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How did doctors make a living? Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national health insurance in 1911. It looks at private practice and how this was supplemented by public appointments. In this innovative study, Anne Digby makes use of new archival sources of information to produce a compelling picture of ordinary rather than elite doctors, and of the dynamics of provincial rather than metropolitan practice. From the mid-eighteenth century doctors travelled to see ordinary patients, developed specialisms and expanded institutions. Despite limitations in treatment, doctors raised demand for their services as illuminating case studies of women, children, the poor and the affluent show. But doctors did not limit their own numbers, and were largely unsuccessful in restricting competition from other practitioners, with the significant exception of women. Consequently, many GPs struggled to make a living by seeing numerous patients at low fees. Doctors' entrepreneurial activity thus helped shape English medicine into a distinctive pattern of general and specialist practice, and of public and private health care.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 052134526X
• ISBN 13: 9780521345262
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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