GPs, Politics and Medical Professional Protest in Britain, 18801948 [Hardcover]

1. Introduction? 2. An Uncertain Profession: GPs Struggle for Identity and Status in the Nineteenth Century? 3. Professional Representation: The Battle of the Clubs and the Fight for Autonomy, 1880-1911? 4. The Political Doctor is Now Born: Lloyd George and the Doctors Revolt, 1911-1913? 5. Inauspicious Beginnings: Medical Trade Unionism, the Great War, and Early Attempts at Bargained Corporatism, 1913-1919? 6. Statutory Bodies with Martial Attitudes: Local Medical and Panel Committees, 1913-1939? 7. Black-coated Bolshevists: The Ministry of Health, Political Brinkmanship and the Ideologies of Class, 1919-1926? 8. The Consolidation of National Health Insurance: Administration, Red Tape, and the Economics of Contract Practice, 1926-1939? 9. Parallel Developments: GPs and the Mixed Economy of Care, 1914-1948? 10. Utopian Visions: Interwar Debates about the Future of Health Services, 1920-1939? 11. For Victory and Health: The Second World War, the Beveridge Report, and the Coming of the NHS, 1939-1945? 12. Facing the Future? Bevan, the BMA and the Ghost of Conflicts Past, 1945-1948? Conclusion: Assessing GPs Political Activities and their Context? Epilogue: The Legacy of Medical Professional Protest

This book charts the journey of British General Practitioners (GPs) toward professional self-realisation through the development of a political consciousness manifested in a series of bruising encounters with the government.

This book charts the journey of British General Practitioners (GPs) towards professional self-realisation through the development of a political consciousness manifested in a series of bruising encounters with government.

GPs are an essential part of the social fabric of modern Britain but as a group have always felt undervalued, clashing with successive governments over the terms on which they offered their services to the public. Explaining the background to these disputelƒ