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Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain

Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain

Crane, Jennifer
Hand, Jane

Hardcover

Series: Social Histories of Medicine, Book 34

Medical ReferenceGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1526163462
ISBN13: 9781526163462
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 7 2022
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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