As the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes in the UK have been on our NHS heroes. But where did they come from? Why do we have such a unique free at the point of use healthcare system? How has this benefitted British society? And how does healthcare in other countries work?
Going back to pre-history, we will take a look at epidemics and pandemics through the ages and how they have consistently nudged healthcare policy toward a more social model. They say a measure of civilized society is how it provides for its citizens, and the NHS has been the backbone of Great Britain for the best part of a century. As well as looking at its origins and counterparts in other countries, we will take a look at how the Covid-19 pandemic has been handled, and what the future of social healthcare might be across the globe.
Author(s): Jaime Breitnauer
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 193
City: Barnsley
Cover
Book Title
Copyright
Contents
Author’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I The Role of Disease in Society
Chapter I The Development of Disease – Epidemics, Pandemics, Farming and Globalisation
Chapter II The Pariah’s Path; Compassion and Blame in Society for the Sick
Chapter III Disease and the Health of Society – Epidemics from Prehistory to Antiquity
Part II From the Black Death to the NHS
Chapter IV The First Pandemics – Antonine and Justinian Plague
Chapter V Black Death – the Birth of Europe, Modern Medicine and Human Rights
Chapter VI Written in the Stars – Influenza from 1590 to 1918, and the Foundations of Modern Public Healthcare
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Chapter VII Free Healthcare at the Point of Use The Birth of the UK NHS
Chapter VIII Smallpox and the Greater Good – the Story of Vaccines
Part III Post-Welfare State Britain; Modern Disease and the Public Healthcare System
Chapter IX The Big, Fat, Epidemic – How Obesity Shapes Public Health Care
Chapter X HIV and AIDS – a Pandemic of Fear
Chapter XI From SARS to Covid, Pandemics in the Twenty-first Century
Chapter XII Beyond the Welfare State – Where does Universal Healthcare go Next?
About the Author
Notes
Bibliography
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