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This 7 page paper examines the changes in medical provision between the years 1845 and 1854. The paper looks at the way healthcare has been provided and the development of ideas regarding the role of the state in health care. The paper argues that of all the changes the most far reaching was the adoption of a National Health Service (NHS) which came about due to the Second World War. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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World War that was to have the biggest and longest lasting impact that is still with us today. During the nineteenth century there was a dramatic shift. Before this time
there had been the perception of the body as an holistic whole, with illness and health related, However, in this time there is a separation of the body and illness,
with greater concentration given to the way in which illnesses are caused, the role of diseases and the influence of germs (Lawrence, 1994). This was a notable shift in the
underlying perception of the conditions and treatments, without this many later developments could not have occurred. However it is a perceptual change. The theories regarding the causes of illness
were the basis of studies undertaken in the Crimean War. The work of Florence Nightingale is often quoted with the study undertaken at the Scutari Hospital in Turkey. There were
high death rates when the patients were moved away form the front line, a pattern which was surprising, and Nightingale theories regarding the causes, such as late hospitalisation and poor
food. This formed the basis of later work undertaken with others, after the Crimean War when she worked with William Farr, a pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove
a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hospital also suffered from overcrowding as well as poor hygiene. This was the reason for the
high mortality rate, and it was this that Nightingale used to push forward her ideas on health system reform. A Royal Commission was held in the years after the
Crimean War, this commission suppressed the report of Nightingale and Farr, and pressurised them into secrecy. However, Nightingale was not to be deterred and prepared her own report Small quoted
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