Book ID: CBB001422161

The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870--1970 (2014)

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Hayward, Rhodri (Author)


Bloomsbury


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiv + 268 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of how this psychological sensibility came to be established. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is nothing inevitable about the current connection between health, identity and personal history. It traces the changing conception of the psyche in Britain over the last two centuries and it demonstrates how these changes were rooted in transformed patterns of medical care. The shifts from private medicine through to National Insurance and the National Health Service fostered different kinds of relationship between doctor and patient and different understandings of psychological distress. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 examines these transformations and, in so doing, provides new critical insights into our modern sense of identity and changing notions of health that will be of great value to anyone interested in the modern history of British medicine.

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Review Hubbard, Katherine (2015) Review of "The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870--1970". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 338-340). unapi

Review Miller, Ian (2014) Review of "The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870--1970". Medical History (pp. 458-460). unapi

Review Casper, Stephen T. (2015) Review of "The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870--1970". Social History of Medicine (pp. 212-213). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Draper, Melvyn Lloyd
Clifford Williamson
Welch, Ellen
Crane, Jennifer
Michael T. Saler
Jane Hand
Concepts
Health care
Medicine and government
Public health
Insurance
Medicine and society
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Saskatchewan (Canada)
South Africa
Europe
Canada
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
American Red Cross
American Medical Association
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