Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6346-2 (ISBN)
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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
Jennifer Crane is lecturer in health geographies at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol and worked as a Public Engagement Research Fellow on the Cultural History of the NHS project at the University of Warwick Jane Hand worked as a Research Fellow on the Cultural History of the NHS project at the University of Warwick -- .
Introduction – Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand
Part I: Work
1 The making of ‘NHS staff’ as a worker identity, 1948–85 – Jack Saunders
2 Sick notes are a waste of time: doctors’ labour and medical certification at the birth of the NHS – Gareth Millward
Part II: Activism
3 ‘Loving’ the NHS: social surveys and activist feelings – Jennifer Crane
4 The everyday work of hospital campaigns: public knowledge and activism in the UK’s National Health Services – Ellen Stewart, Kathy Dodworth and Angelo Ercia
Part III: Consumerism
5 Consuming health? Health education and the British public in the 1980s – Alex Mold
6 Customers who don’t buy anything!: the introduction of free dispensing at Boots the Chemists – Katey Logan
Part IV: Space
7 The cultural significance of space and place in the NHS – Angela Whitecross
8 ‘Bright-while-you-wait’? Waiting rooms and the National Health Service, c. 1948–58 – Martin D. Moore
Part V: Representation
9 Representation of the NHS in the arts and popular culture – Mathew Thomson
10 ‘If it hadn’t been for the doctor, I think I would have killed myself’: ensuring adolescent knowledge and access to healthcare in the age of Gillick – Hannah Elizabeth
Part VI: International
11 ‘A spawning of the nether pit’? Welfare, warfare and American visions of Britain’s National Health Service, 1948–58 – Roberta Bivins
Epilogue: ‘I’m afraid [,] there’s no NHS’ – Sally Sheard
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Histories of Medicine |
| Zusatzinfo | 14 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 572 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6346-2 / 1526163462 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6346-2 / 9781526163462 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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