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The passionate economist : how Brian Abel-Smith shaped global health and social welfare /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheard, Sally (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : The Policy Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Inheritances: 1926-46
  • Smiths and Abel-Smiths
  • English education
  • After Haileybury
  • 2. wider world: 1946-51
  • National Service
  • Austria: Brian's cold war
  • Cambridge
  • political education
  • Postgraduate
  • British Council universities debating tour
  • 3. Beveridge's Britain: 1951-55
  • new British welfare state
  • Useful academics: the London School of Economics
  • Social science and social policy
  • Richard Titmuss
  • Peter Townsend
  • Fabians
  • Tony Crosland and The Future of Socialism
  • Reform of Social Security
  • Costing the National Health Service
  • Too political for research?
  • 4. Political ambitions and private passions: 1955-59
  • independent life
  • New Pensions for the Old
  • Dalton's heir
  • Whose Welfare State?
  • National Insurance
  • National Assistance
  • Reconceptualising poverty
  • 5. Health and happiness: 1956-64
  • Judgements and predictions: health and medicine in Britain
  • Funding health service research: collaborations and conflicts
  • Bedpans and balance sheets: managing the NHS
  • Friendships and partnerships
  • natural historian: The Hospitals 1800-1948
  • In the public's eye
  • 6. Lingua franca: 1956-67
  • Health economics
  • Mauritius: three is the magic number
  • Paying for Health Services
  • 7. Distractions and diversions: 1964-68
  • disappearance of national superannuation
  • professors of poverty
  • Child Poverty Action Group
  • new Supplementary Benefits Scheme
  • Managing the Poverty Survey
  • legal interest
  • (Only) Just Men
  • 8. Values: 1968-70
  • Policy from the inside: advising Richard Crossman
  • Health enquiries
  • AEGIS and the Ely scandal
  • Restructuring the National Health Service
  • LSE,1967-69
  • end of the Titmice
  • 'The Poor Get Poorer Under Labour'
  • 9. Patriarchy and authority: 1970-74
  • Health and social policy: theory and practice
  • Enquiries: abuse of social security, NHS management, Thalidomide
  • 'Quite like old times': pensions
  • International interests: health economics
  • Development, poverty and population control
  • Losses
  • 10. 'Such marvellous fun': 1974-76
  • Chocolate soldiers: the rise of the special adviser
  • Private concerns
  • 'One of us': advising Barbara Castle
  • Labour's policy machine
  • National Health Service: 'The ark of our covenant'
  • Pay beds
  • Resource Allocation Working Party
  • Mental illness, mental handicap and disability benefits
  • Pensions: third time lucky
  • 11. Disillusionment: 1976-79
  • Ennals, 'Deep Throat' and the Cabinet papers leak
  • Castle Diaries
  • Royal Commission on the National Health Service
  • 30th anniversary of the National Health Service
  • Inequalities: the Supplementary Benefits Review and the Black Report
  • Peter Shore and the Department of the Environment
  • Labour in 1979: assessments and strategies
  • 12. International commuting: 1975-79
  • Value for Money in Health Services: A Comparative Study
  • Return to Mauritius
  • European Economic Community
  • new European advisory role
  • 13. In and outers: 1979-91
  • Health for All by the Year 2000
  • HFA2000: health, wealth and health economics
  • Making a Financial Master Plan
  • Special adviser to Mahler
  • Health promotion
  • HFA2000: targets and assessments
  • rise of The World Bank
  • Commission on Health Research for Development
  • Kenya
  • 14. end of the party: 1979-90
  • Labour in opposition
  • Reform or dissolution? The National Health Service in Conservative Britain
  • London's health services
  • new academia: a business of knowledge
  • 15. On the move: 1990-96
  • Reform: the progressive rise of health insurance
  • LSE 'retirement'
  • Cost Containment and New Priorities in Health Care
  • Tanzania, Indonesia and Thailand: personal and professional interests
  • new language of health and social welfare
  • Health: political and personal.