“The British NHS:

Brave New Worlds?”

Prof Charles Webster

27 March 2012, Oxford Brookes University

Summary:

In this lecture, Prof Charles Webster offers a detailed analysis of the health care provisions in Britain before and immediately after the introduction of the National Health Service, discussing amongst others the degree to which the state was already a primary care provider in 1929 and the difficulties of translating various visions for state healthcare into reality

Guest Lecture for the UG module ‘Brave New Worlds: Medicine and Modernity’ held on the 27 March 2012, Oxford Brookes University.

Other lectures in this series:

Alan Hawley: “Minds at War: War Psychiatry since World War One.” 21 February 2012, Oxford Brookes University

Tim Child: “Assisted Conception: Past, Present and Future.” 24 April 2012, Oxford Brookes University