Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.

This book considers a comprehensive range of topics ranging from children's health, mental disorders and the influence of pharmaceutical companies to the systems of twentieth century healthcare in Britain, Eastern Europe and South Africa. Covering a broad chronological, thematic and global scope, chapters discuss key themes such as how changing economies have influenced configurations of healthcare, how access has varied according to lifecycle, ethnicity and wealth, and how definitions of public and private have shifted over time.

Containing illustrations and a general introduction that outlines the key themes discussed in the volume, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private is essential reading for any student interested in the history of medicine.

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. List of Contributors. 1 Introduction PAUL WEINDLING 2 Public and Private Health Care for the Poor, 1650s to 1960s ELIZABETH HURREN AND STEVEN KING 3 Children’s Health in Public and Private, 1700-1950 ALYSA LEVENE 3 Mental Disorder, Crime and the Development of Healthcare Systems KATHERINE D. WATSON 5 Health Care and the Design and Management of Public and Private Space: Britain, France and the US, c. 1750-c. 1950 TOM CROOK 6 Private and Public Traditions of Health Care in Central and South-eastern Europe, from the Nineteenth to the (Mid-) Twentieth Centuries MARIUS TURDA 7 Healthcare as Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century: The Case of the British National Health Service GLEN O’HARA AND GEORGE CAMPBELL GOSLING 8 South Africa’s Mixed Economy of Health Care ANNE DIGBY 9 Pharmaceutical Innovation in the Public and Private Spheres in the Twentieth Century VIVIANE QUIRKE 10 International Health between Public and Private in the Twentieth-Century PAUL WEINDLING Bibliography