Private complaints and public health

Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Richard Titmuss was one of the 20th century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities.Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all their citizens.Private Complaints and Public Health and Welfare and Wellbeing were published as companion titles and are intended to be read together.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-06-30
Mått:172 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt:493 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781861345615

Utforska kategorier

Samhällsmedicin och preventiv medicin inom Medicin
Hälso- och sjukvård inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the UCL Social Research Institute. Jonathan Barker directed the Age Concern Research Unit from 1979 to 1986, co-founded the Institute of Gerontology at King’s College and now directs Far-sight Research.

Recensioner i media

"With the NHS undergoing the most fundamental change in its 56 year history, this book is a timely reminder of important policy dilemmas that we ignore at our peril. This collection of Titmuss's writings brings together remarkably prescient commentaries on aspects of health, health care, and the NHS." British Medical Journal

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Introduction Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker; Prologue: The experience of being a patient; Part One: Social medicine and social inequality Commentaries by Mike Wadsworth and Jerry Morris; Infant mortality; The social disease of juvenile rheumatism; Health and social change: the example of rheumatic heart disease; War and disease. Part Two: On the National Health Service Commentary by John Ashton; Towards a national hospital service; The policy background; The structure of the NHS in England; The NHS and general practice; The ethics and economics of medical care; Part Three: The sociology of health care Commentary by ????; Medical behaviour, science and the NHS; The hospital and its patients; 'Therapeutic' drugs; Planning for ageing and the health and welfare services; Part Four: Health, values and social policy Commentary by Julian Le Grand; Choice and the welfare state; The gift of blood; Doctors and 'socialised medicine'; Medical ethics and social change in developing societies; Health and the welfare state. Postscript: Richard Titmuss's contribution to the sociology of health and illness Raymond Illsley.