GPs, Politics and Medical Professional Protest in Britain, 18801948

This book charts the journey of British General Practitioners (GPs) toward professional self-realisation through the development of a political consciousness manifested in a series of bruising encounters with the government.

Autorentext

Chris Locke is currently an honorary research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. With postgraduate degrees in History and Law, he developed his interest in medical politics during a thirty-year career advising medical practitioners on contractual and policy matters.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. An Uncertain Profession: GPs' Struggle for Identity and Status in the Nineteenth Century 3. Professional Representation: 'The Battle of the Clubs' and the Fight for Autonomy, 1880-1911 4. 'The Political Doctor is Now Born': Lloyd George and the Doctors' Revolt, 1911-1913 5. Inauspicious Beginnings: Medical Trade Unionism, the Great War, and Early Attempts at Bargained Corporatism, 1913-1919 6. 'Statutory Bodies with Martial Attitudes': Local Medical and Panel Committees, 1913-1939 7. 'Black-coated Bolshevists': The Ministry of Health, Political Brinkmanship and the 'Ideologies of Class', 1919-1926 8. The Consolidation of National Health Insurance: Administration, 'Red Tape', and the Economics of Contract Practice, 1926-1939 9. Parallel Developments: GPs and the 'Mixed Economy of Care', 1914-1948 10. Utopian Visions: Interwar Debates about the Future of Health Services, 1920-1939 11. For Victory and Health: The Second World War, the Beveridge Report, and the Coming of the NHS, 1939-1945 12. Facing the Future? Bevan, the BMA and the Ghost of Conflicts Past, 1945-1948 Conclusion: Assessing GPs' Political Activities and their Context Epilogue: The Legacy of Medical Professional Protest