Financing Medicine

<p><em>Financing Medicine </em>brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century with a view to addressing two major issues:</p><ul> <li>Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did?</li> <li>What were the ramifications of these arrangements for the nature and extent of health care before the NHS? </li> </ul><p>The book also goes on to explore the 'lessons' and legacies of the past which bear upon developments under the NHS. </p><p>The contributors to this volume provide a sustained and detailed examination of the model of health care which preceded the NHS - an organization whose distinctive features hold such fascination for the scholars of health systems - and their insights illuminate current debates on the future of the NHS.</p><p>For students and scholars of the history of medicine this will prove essential reading.</p>