Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This free course, Medicine transformed: On access to healthcare, shows that in the early twentieth century, access to care was unequally divided. The rich could afford care; working men, women and children were helped by the state; others had to rely on their own resources.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Access to healthcare, 1880–1930
- 1 Access to healthcare, 1880–1930
- 2 Patterns of disease
- 2 Patterns of disease
- 3 Preserving health
- 3 Preserving health
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Health and wealth
- 3.3 Hygiene
- 3.4 Health and the working class
- 3.5 The health of mothers and children
- 3.6 Health education
- 4 Domestic care
- 4 Domestic care
- 5 Calling in help
- 5 Calling in help
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 General practitioners
- 5.3 Irregular and unorthodox practitioners
- 5.4 Clinics and outpatient services
- 5.5 Nurses, district nurses and midwives
- 6 Hospital care
- 6 Hospital care
- 7 Conclusion: the medicalisation of society?
- 7 Conclusion: the medicalisation of society?
- 7.1 A review
- 7.2 The public take control
- 7.3 Childbirth
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
