Posters, protests, and prescriptions : cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain / edited by Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

xvii, 349 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Work -- 1. The making of ̀NHS staff' as a worker identity, 1948 -- 85 / Jack Saunders -- 2. Sick notes are a waste of time: doctors' labour and medical certification at the birth of the National Health Service / Gareth Millward -- pt. II Activism -- 3. ̀Loving' the National Health Service: social surveys and activist feelings / Jennifer Crane -- 4. The everyday work of hospital campaigns: public knowledge and activism in the UK's national health services / Angelo Ercia -- pt. III Consumerism -- 5. Consuming health? Health education and the British public in the 1980s / Alex Mold -- 6. Customers who don't buy anything! The introduction of free dispensing at Boots the Chemists / Katey Logan -- pt. IV Space -- 7. The cultural significance of space and place in the National Health Service / Angela Whitecross -- 8. ̀Bright-while-you-wait'? Waiting rooms and the National Health Service, c. 1948 -- 58 / Martin D. Moore -- pt. V Representation -- 9. Representation of the National Health Service in the arts and popular culture / Mathew Thomson -- 10. ̀If it hadn't been for the doctor, I think I would have killed myself: ensuring adolescent knowledge and access to healthcare in the age of Gillick / Hannah J. Elizabeth -- pt. VI International -- 11. A spawning of the nether pit'? Welfare, warfare, and American visions of Britain's National Health Service, 1948 -- 58 / Roberta Bivins.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-339) and index.