Reluctant providers?: The politics and ideology of municipal hospital finance 1870-1914

Financing Medicine: The British experience since 1750

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 112-129

  Sheard, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79751495580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203682401     Document Type: Chapter

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