The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948 / Edition 1

by Anne Digby

Overview

This is a major study of the formative period in the development of modern general practice in the UK. Drawing upon an impressive range of hitherto unused archival material, Professor Anne Digby analyzes the important changes and developments in primary health care in the century before the creation of the National Health Service in 1948.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198205135
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/26/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1770L (what's this?)

About the Author

Oxford Brookes University

Table of Contents

1. Constructing General PracticePart I: Careers2. Professional Challenge3. Recruitment, Education, and Training4. Re-inventing RolesPart II: In Practice5. The Medical Market6. Organizing a Practice7. Women Practitioners8. Medical Investigation and Treatment9. PatientsPart III: A Wider World10. Public Duties and Private Lives11. Generalists, Specialists, and Others12. National Health Insurance13. The National Health ServiceSelect Bibliography; Index

Editorial Reviews

"Digby's work is a welcome change from a focus on the profession: its organizations, elites, and journals...[A] fine book"—American Historical Review

"[A] most lucid and valuable account of general practice that will serve as a benchmark for many years to come...[A] major contribution."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"[E]xtraordinarily thorough survey....Digby has interesting, sometime[s] fascinating information about a very timely subject."—CHOICE

"[R]efreshingly national in scope...[O]ffers...interesting insights into the additional challenges that women physicians had to overcome....Ann Digby deserves our thanks for rescuing the general practitioner's history from oblivion."—JAMA

From the Publisher

The general practitioner has long been the mainstay of the British medical system. Ann Digby deserves our thanks for rescuing the general practitioner's history from oblivion.

Journal of the American Medical Association

Digby (social history, Oxford Brookes University) examines a formative period in the development of modern general medical practice, drawing on hitherto unused archival material and oral testimony to probe the character of general practitioners' careers and practices, and to assess their relationships with local communities, a wider society, and the state. She adopts an evolutionary approach to explain the origins and nature of many changes in medical practice, explores medical practice's gendered nature, and examines the hidden role of the doctor's wife. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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