Caring for Health: History and DiversityCharles Webster Open University Press, 2001 - 384페이지 This book considers the historical development of health care from 1500 to the present day. The authors adopt a broad interdisciplinary framework to draw on the most recent research in the fields of medical and social history. While focusing primarily on the United Kingdom, they also trace the impact of European systems of health care on the colonial territories in the past, and its echoes in the relationship between the advanced economies and the developing world today. The central premise of the book is that the strengths and limitations of health care systems around the world can only be understood in the light of past practices and structures. For instance, only by reference to the historical record is it possible to understand the reasons for the dominance of acute hospital specialities, the Cinderella status of chronic care, the prejudice against alternative medicine, the difficulties experienced in regulating the medical profession, or in determining the sphere of responsibility exercized by nurses. Caring for Health: History and Diversity explores the growth of state involvement in health care, culminating with the welfare state model in the twentieth century. The serious dilemmas confronting attempts to modernize health care are explored with particular reference to the UK National Health Service. Other important themes include: the shifting boundaries between formal and lay care, with particular attention to the role of women as health-care providers; the emergence of specialized health-care occupations and their extending aspirations to professionalization; and the changing definitions of public health and community care. It offers a comparative analysis of current methods of delivering and financing health care in the developed and developing world, and asks whether economic integration is leading inexorably towards a global health-care system. |
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... disease What diseases affected people most in the pre - industrial period ? 2 If every age has its disease - as ours may be AIDS , or cancer- then this period is best represented by syphilis . Possibly introduced by contact with the New ...
... disease What diseases affected people most in the pre - industrial period ? 2 If every age has its disease - as ours may be AIDS , or cancer- then this period is best represented by syphilis . Possibly introduced by contact with the New ...
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... disease to create concern . At the end of the 1990s there were outbreaks of unfamiliar diseases such as a bird influenza , affecting humans for the first time , ebola haemorrhagic fever , variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease ( vCJD ) ...
... disease to create concern . At the end of the 1990s there were outbreaks of unfamiliar diseases such as a bird influenza , affecting humans for the first time , ebola haemorrhagic fever , variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease ( vCJD ) ...
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... Disease World Health and Disease Human Biology and Health : An Evolutionary Approach Birth to Old Age : Health in Transition Caring for Health : History and Diversity Dilemmas in UK Health Care Experiencing and Explaining Disease Health ...
... Disease World Health and Disease Human Biology and Health : An Evolutionary Approach Birth to Old Age : Health in Transition Caring for Health : History and Diversity Dilemmas in UK Health Care Experiencing and Explaining Disease Health ...
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Preindustrial health care 1500 to 1750 | 31 |
The Industrial Revolution 1750 to 1848 | 61 |
The era of public health 1848 to 1918 | 99 |
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