Financing medicine : the British experience since 1750 / edited by Martin Gorsky and Sally Sheard.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

The price of charity to the Middlesex Hospital, 1750-1830 / Bronwyn Croxson -- Charitable bodies : the funding of Birmingham's voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Reinarz -- Regional comparators in the funding and organisation of the voluntary hospital system, c.1860-1939 / Steven Cherry -- 'The caprice of charity' : geographical variations in the finances of British voluntary hospital services before the NHS / John Mohan -- Paying for the sick poor : financing medicine under the Victorian Poor Law : the case of the Whitechapel Union, 1850-1900 / Keir Waddington -- Reluctant providers? : the politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870-1914 / Sally Sheard -- The Bradford Municipal Hospital experiment of 1920 : the emergence of the mixed economy in hospital provision in inter-war Britain / Tim Willis -- Friendly society health insurance in nineteenth-century England / Martin Gorsky -- 'Strong combination' : the Edwardian BMA and contract practice / Andrew Morrice -- The economic and medical significance of the British National Insurance Act, 1911 / Anne Digby -- DtA double irony? : the politics of National Health Service expenditure in the 1950s / Tony Cutler -- Inequalities, regions and hospitals : the Resource Allocation Working Party / John Welshman -- Financing health care in Britain since 1939 / Rodney Lowe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.