TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alysa Levene
AU  - Martin Powell
AU  - John Stewart
AU  - Becky Taylor
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-7933
TI  - Cradle to Grave
T2  - Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107500
N2  - The book examines, for the first time in any detail or in any depth, the provision of municipal medicine in interwar England and Wales at both national and local case-study levels. Municipal health care was an important, but historically neglected, part of the British health care system in this period. The book presents conceptual and empirical perspectives on interwar municipal medicine in England. Using a mixture of under-utilised quantitative and archival data, it explores the patterns of local authority medical services at both national and local levels.  What emerges is a complex pattern of provision which touched on all areas of healthcare from the ‘cradle to the grave’, but with very different priorities and forms in different places. In turn, this raises important questions about the role of local government in this period before the advent of the National Health Service and thereby the subsequent history of health care in England.
KW  - National Health Service (NHS), Municipal health care, British health care system, William Beveridge welfare state, municipal medicine in interwar England and Wales
LA  - English
ER  -