Creating the National Health Service: Aneurin Bevan and the Medical Lords

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Two competing interpretations of the creation of the British National Health Service have been articulated from its beginning. The first, promoted by Winston Churchill, whose party was out of power at the time, was that it was basically a consensual process flowing naturally the proclivities of all political parties. The other point of view, less widely accepted, suggests that the NHS was almost the sole creation of the Labour minister of health Aneurin Bevan. Rintala (political science, Boston College) evaluates the evidence for the two interpretations, eventually giving Bevan credit for most of the successes of the NHS and excusing him for continuing disparities in care. Distributed in the US by ISBS.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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Two competing interpretations of the creation of the British National Health Service have been articulated from its beginning. The first, promoted by Winston Churchill, whose party was out of power at the time, was that it was basically a consensual process flowing naturally the proclivities of all political parties. The other point of view, less widely accepted, suggests that the NHS was almost the sole creation of the Labour minister of health Aneurin Bevan. Rintala (political science, Boston College) evaluates the evidence for the two interpretations, eventually giving Bevan credit for most of the successes of the NHS and excusing him for continuing disparities in care. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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