THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE; About the author; Contents; Abbreviations and acronyms; Foreword; Preface to the second edition; 1. The NHS as wealth production; 2. What does it produce?; 3. How does it produce?; 4. Generalists and specialists; 5. Ownership; 6. Justice and solidarity; 7. A space in which to learn; Notes and references; Index of names; Index of subjects.
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Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its current forced return to the market. His starting point is a detailed analysis of how clinical decisions are made. He explores the changing social relationships in the NHS as a gift economy, how these may be affected by reducing care to commodity status, and the new directions they might take if the NHS resumed progress independently from the market.