Private complaints and public health : : Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service / / ed. by Ann Oakley, Jonathan Barker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Ashton, John R.,; Askham, Janet,; Barker, Jonathan,; Grand, Julian Le,; Illsley, Raymond,; Titmuss, Richard,; Wadsworth, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Barker, Jonathan,; Oakley, Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Richard Titmuss was one of the 20th century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all their citizens.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Sources of extracts -- Notes on editors and contributors -- Introduction -- Prologue: The experience of being a patient -- Social medicine and social inequality -- Infant mortality -- The social disease of juvenile rheumatism -- Health and social change: the example of rheumatic heart disease -- War and disease -- The National Health Service -- Towards a national hospital service -- The policy background -- The structure of the NHS in England -- The NHS and general practice -- The ethics and economics of medical care -- The sociology of health care -- Medical behaviour, science and the NHS -- The hospital and its patients -- ‘Therapeutic’ drugs -- Planning for ageing -- Health, values and social policy -- Choice and the welfare state -- The gift of blood -- Medical ethics and social change in developing societies -- Health and the welfare state -- Epilogue: Richard Titmuss’s contribution to the sociology of health and illness -- General bibliography -- Bibliography of work by Richard Titmuss -- Richard Titmuss: further reading -- Index