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Zusatztext Doctors are like farmers: they are never happy, except perhaps in retrospect. Just as I have never met a drinker or a smoker who drinks or smokes as much as he used to, so I have never met a doctor who thinks the NHS is what it was a few years ago. This book about general practice by several authors, most of them eminent general practitioners, sets the record straight. Klappentext This is the first comprehensive history of general practice under the National Health Service. It maps the changes which have occurred since its early and unhappy state in 1948, through the extraordinary renaissance that began in the 1960s, to the radical changes which have occurred since 1990 Zusammenfassung This is the first history of general practice under the National Health Service, from 1948 to the present. It is written by a team of contributors all of whom have, in various ways, been deeply involved in the development of primary health care in Britain. Between them, they cover all the main aspects of general practice, including changing concepts of illness and clinial practices, politics and organization, medical education, public relations, and international comparisons. They examine how the relative stagnation of the early years, when morale and funding were low, gave way to a renaissance in general practice in the 1960s which changed the service out of all recognition. // Published with an extensive chronology and statistical appendix, this book will serve as an essential reference for medical historians and for the wide variety of people involved in health-care services, both in Britain and the wider world. fifty years, from 1948 to the present. It is written in a clear and accessible manner by a team of distinguished medical historians, many of whom are, or have been, general practitioners deeply involved in the development of primary health care services in this country. The book covers all the main aspects of general practice, including changing concepts of illness and clinical practices, politics and organization, medical education, public relations, and international comparisons. Between them, the contributors show how the oldest branch of medicine gradually rediscovered its role alongside the rapid advances of specialized medicine. They explain how, after a period of relative stagnation in the 1960s, there followed a renaissance in general practice which changed the service out of all recognition. Published with an extensive chronology and statistical appendix, this book will serve as an essential reference for medical historians as well as the wide variety of people involved in the health care services. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Contributors Chronology Introduction and Overview 1: The Politics of General Practice 2: The Practice 3: "What is Wrong" and "How We Know": Changing Concepts of Illness in General Practice 4: Some Aspects of Clinical Care in General Practice 5: General Practitioners and the Other Caring Professions 6: Research in General Practice: Perspective and Themes 7: Undergraduate Medical Education and General Practice 8: Vocational Training and Continuing Education 9: The General Practitioner and Professional Organizations 10: The General Practitioner and the Public 11: Developments in Other Countries 12: Conclusion Appendices Index ...
