How the black death gave us the NHS : a journey through the history of epidemics, and their influence on social policy and public healthcare / Jaime Breitnauer.
Publisher:
Pen and Sword History,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
164 pages and 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographic references (pages [158]-164) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. XII Beyond the Welfare State -- Where does Universal Healthcare go Next?. ch. I The Development of Disease -- Epidemics, Pandemics, Farming and Globalisation -- ch. II The Pariah's Path; Compassion and Blame in Society for the Sick -- ch. III Disease and the Health of Society -- Epidemics from Prehistory to Antiquity -- pt. II From the Black Death to the NHS -- ch. IV The First Pandemics -- Antonine and Justinian Plague -- ch. V Black Death -- the Birth of Europe, Modern Medicine and Human Rights -- ch. VI Written in the Stars -- Influenza from 1590 to 1918, and the Foundations of Modern Public Healthcare -- ch. VII Free Healthcare at the Point of Use The Birth of the UK NHS -- ch. VIII Smallpox and the Greater Good -- the Story of Vaccines -- pt. III Post-Welfare State Britain; Modern Disease and the Public Healthcare System -- ch. IX The Big, Fat, Epidemic -- How Obesity Shapes Public Health Care -- ch. X HIV and AIDS -- a Pandemic of Fear -- ch. XI From SARS to Covid, Pandemics in the Twenty-first Century -- ch. XII Beyond the Welfare State -- Where does Universal Healthcare go Next?.
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