Themselves Writ Large

This enlightening and individualistic narrative traces the development of the BMA from its inception, through two world wars and the advent of the NHS Foreword

Preface

Conception, birth, and infancy 1

Constitutions and confrontations 26

Expansion and evolution 46

The Victorian BMA: what did it do?: Professing medicine 69

The Victorian BMA: what did it do?: State medicine. Medicine and the state 105

Upheavals 133

Welfare and war 168

Interwar 193

Reprise 220

A national health service 248

Home and away 270

A sea of troubles 304

The ferment in general practice, 1948-66 325

Index 359

Peter Bartrip is the author of Themselves Writ Large, published by Wiley.