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Author:   Chris Locke
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9781032572017

ISBN 10:   1032572019
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   13 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

“This is a scholarly book which contains original material and is well referenced… it will appeal to people with an interest in general practice political history.” Chris Derrett, BSHM February 2025

“This is a scholarly book which contains original material and is well referenced… it will appeal to people with an interest in general practice political history.” Chris Derrett, BSHM February 2025 “As Chris Locke demonstrates in his detailed, insightful, and timely analysis in GPs, Politics and the Medical Professional Protest in Britain, 1880-1948, the concerns about insufficient pay, workload, not being valued, and fears that their independence will be taken from them have characterised GPs and their relationship with government since the term ‘general practice’ was first used in 1818… This book provides a fascinating account of the trials and tribulations of GPs as they emerged as a professional group, developed representative bodies, had repeated periods of conflicts with government, and throughout it all felt underpaid, overworked, and undervalued. Locke has done us a great service in highlighting the role of LMCs, stressing the importance of independent contractor arrangements and clearly explaining the concerns GPs have repeatedly tried to resolve. It’s a book that should be essential reading for all those attending LMC conferences today.” Richard Vautrey, BJGP Life (15 March 2025) This book provides an invaluable synthesis of the composition and formation of a 'collective political consciousness' among GPs from the late nineteenth century to the start of the NHS in 1948 - a consciousness that, as Locke ably demonstrates, shaped past policy outcomes and continues to inform healthcare in Britain today...(it) is an impressive book with a clear command of its subjects. Andrew Seaton, Social History of Medicine ...a staggering feat of scholarship... Locke's book requires- and deserves- your patience. It is exceptional. Stephen T. Casper, History: Reviews of New Books.

Author Information

Chris Locke is currently an honorary research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. With postgraduate degrees in History and Law, he developed his interest in medical politics during a thirty-year career advising medical practitioners on contractual and policy matters.

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