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Bivins, Roberta E. (2020) Commentary : serving the nation, serving the people : echoes of war in the early NHS. Medical Humanities, 46 (2). pp. 154-156. doi:10.1136/medhum-2019-011760 ISSN 1468-215X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011760
Abstract
It is something of a cliché to speak of Britain as having been transformed by the traumas of World War II and by its aftermath. From the advent of the ‘cradle to grave’ Welfare State to the end of (formal) empire, the effects of total war were enduring. Typically, they have been explored in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, technological and geopolitical trends and events. Yet as the articles in this volume observe across a variety of examples, World War II affected individuals, groups and communities in ways both intimate and immediate. For them, its effects were directly embodied. That is, they were experienced physically and emotionally—in physical and mental wounds, in ruptured domesticities and new opportunities and in the wholesale disruption and re-formation of communities displaced by bombing and reconstruction. So it is, perhaps, unsurprising that Britain’s post-war National Health Service, as the state institution charged with managing the bodies and behaviour of the British people, was itself permeated by a ‘wartime spirit’ long after the cessation of international hostilities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | National health services -- Great Britain -- History, Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Social medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Health -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Medical policy -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Public health -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, World War, 1939-1945 -- Health aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Medical Humanities | ||||||||
Publisher: | B M J Group | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1468-215X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 9 July 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 46 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 154-156 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1136/medhum-2019-011760 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © Authors (or their employer(s) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 November 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 February 2021 | ||||||||
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