Sick-Note Britain
Title | Sick-Note Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Massey |
Publisher | Hurst & Company |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1787381226 |
An urgent call to reform Britain's sickness culture, offering social--not medical--solutions.
Sick Notes
Title | Sick Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Copperfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Copperfield, Tony |
ISBN | 9781906308148 |
Medicine.
Sick Note
Title | Sick Note PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Millward |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2022-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192689657 |
Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state. Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, and citizens concerned themselves with measuring sickness. At various times, each understood that a signed note from a doctor was not enough to 'prove' whether someone was really sick. Yet, with no better alternative on offer, the sick note survived in practice and in the popular imagination - just like the welfare state itself. Sick Note reveals the interplay between medical, employment, and social security policy. The physical note became an integral part of working and living in Britain, while the term 'sick note' was often deployed rhetorically as a mocking nickname or symbol of Britain's economic and political troubles. Using government policy documents, popular media, internet archives, and contemporary research, Millward covers the evolution of medical certification and the welfare state since the Second World War, demonstrating how sickness and disability policies responded to demographic and economic changes - though not always satisfactorily for administrators or claimants. Moreover, despite the creation of 'the fit note' in 2010, the idea of 'the sick note' has remained. With the specific challenges posed by the global pandemic in the early 2020s, Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note
Title | Sick Note PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Millward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9780192689641 |
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows how the sick note has survived in practice and in the popular imagination - just like the welfare state itself.
Fitness for Work
Title | Fitness for Work PDF eBook |
Author | Keith T Palmer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 737 |
Release | 2013-01-24 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0199643245 |
'Fitness for Work' provides information and guidance on the effects of medical conditions on employment and working capability. Every significant medical problem is covered, including the employment potential and assessment of anyone with a disability. Legal and ethical aspects are also addressed.
THIS IS GOING TO HURT
Title | THIS IS GOING TO HURT PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Kay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Anecdotes |
ISBN | 9780316426749 |
This is a specially adapted version of Adam Kay's book 'This is Going to Hurt' for Quick Reads. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. You work 97 hours a week. You make life and death decisions. You are often covered in blood (or worse) from head to toe. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you do. Adam Kay's diary was written in secret after long days, sleepless nights and missed weekends. It is funny, moving and sometimes shocking. This is everything you wanted to know and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.
How Sick Is British Democracy?
Title | How Sick Is British Democracy? PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rose |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2021-05-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030731235 |
Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by carefully examining the health of the British body politic from Tony Blair’s time in Downing Street to the challenges of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. It finds some parts are in good health, for example, elections are free and losers as well as winners accept the results, unlike the United States. Other parts show intermittent symptoms of ill health, such as Cabinet ministers avoiding accountability. There is also a chronic problem of managing the unity of the United Kingdom. None of the symptoms is fatal. The book identifies effective remedies for some symptoms, placebos that offer assurance without cure, and perennially popular prescriptions that are politically impossible. Being a healthy democracy does not promise effectiveness in dealing with economic problems, but a big majority of Britons do not want to trade the freedom that comes with democracy for the promises of undemocratic leaders.