Overview
What does it mean to love a healthcare system? It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached to its National Health Service and the last decade has seen increasingly visible displays of gratitude and love. Whilst social surveys of public attitudes measure how much Britain loves the NHS, this book mobilises new empirical research to ask how Britain love its NHS. The answer delves into a series of public practices - such as campaigning, donating and volunteering within NHS organisations - and investigates how attitudes to the NHS shape patient experience of healthcare. Stewart argues that these should be understood as practices of care for, and contestation about the future of, the healthcare system. This book offers a timely critique of both the potential, and the dysfunctions, of Britain's complex love affair with the NHS. EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Full Product Details
Author: Ellen A. Stewart (University of Glasgow, UK)
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447368878
ISBN 10: 1447368878
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 05 July 2023
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This is a wonderful book. Popular love for the NHS might be, as Stewart writes, often seen just as the background to the 'real' politics social scientists study, but as this work shows it is a foundational fact about the NHS systems and how they work. Moreover, it sheds light on fundamental aspects of politics and culture in the UK, showing how the population, in ways large and small, anchor its universal health care in shared and often misunderstood values."" Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan"
"""Stewart is optimistic that affection tempered with realism could be a force for change."" The Spectator ""This is a wonderful book. Popular love for the NHS might be, as Stewart writes, often seen just as the background to the 'real' politics social scientists study, but as this work shows it is a foundational fact about the NHS systems and how they work. Moreover, it sheds light on fundamental aspects of politics and culture in the UK, showing how the population, in ways large and small, anchor its universal health care in shared and often misunderstood values."" Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan"
Author Information
Ellen A. Stewart is Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
