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Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48

by George Campbell Gosling, Keir Waddington

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This title examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians, and the public.

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