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Social History of Medicine 1996 9(2):215-233; doi:10.1093/shm/9.2.215
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Accountability, Entitlement, and Control Issues and Voluntary Hospital Funding c1860–1939

STEVEN CHERRY*

*School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ. I thank the Study Leave Committee at UEA for the research opportunity and the Wellcome Trust for financial support. I am grateful to staff at Wellcome, British, Cambridge University, Colindale, and Sheffield Central libraries and at archives in Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotheram, and Doncaster.

SUMMARY New income sources, revised organizational principles, treatment charges and a broader social range of patients featured in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century voluntary hospitals. Participation in service organization and patient entitlement are neglected themes in discussion of the voluntary hospital system. They complicate presentations of popular support or ideological commitment to voluntarism, or oppositional advocacy of municipal or state services. Utilizing contemporary publications relating to hospital management, publicity, and contributory schemes, tension and conflict within voluntary effort are examined. Financial assistance did not signify full endorsement of voluntarism or deference to established hospital or medical authority, and later support for the NHS may not reflect a sea change in popular opinion concerning healthcare.

Keywords: voluntarism; voluntary hospitals; contributory schemes; finance; philanthropy; participation; accountability; social control


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