Posters, protests, and prescriptions: Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain
Jennifer Crane · Jane Hand
Jun 2022 · Social Histories of Medicine Book 34 · Manchester University Press
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The National Health Service has provided Britain’s healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its inception and has undergone a number of complex reforms and restructures. But the meanings of the NHS are not only – or even primarily – lived out in politics. Nearly every Briton comes into contact with the NHS – from cradle to grave – and this system of healthcare shapes society, culture and everyday life. This book charts these multiple meanings, looking at the NHS as a site of work, activism and consumerism, as a space and in cultural representations. Looking in these ways, the book shows how and why the NHS has become a symbol of Britishness and an object of fierce protectiveness, even love, today.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
The National Health Service has provided Britain’s healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its inception and has undergone a number of complex reforms and restructures. But the meanings of the NHS are not only – or even primarily – lived out in...
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Jennifer Crane is lecturer in health geographies at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol and worked as a Public Engagement Research Fellow on the Cultural History of the NHS project at the University of Warwick
Jane Hand worked as a Research Fellow on the Cultural History of the NHS project at the University of Warwick
Jennifer Crane is lecturer in health geographies at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol and worked as a Public Engagement Research Fellow on the Cultural History of the NHS project at the University of Warwick
Jane Hand worked as a Research Fellow on the Cultural History o...
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