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Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850: Voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives

“…83 McCarthy, 'Associational voluntarism in interwar Britain', p. 67. III. Healthcare and the mixed economy 141 …”

“…Their position is that 'the essence of voluntary sector power changed from being primarily applied, to primarily discursive', increasingly concentrated on advocacy, agenda setting and reframing the political language in which issues were articulated. 141 The claim is grounded in In principle the historiography of English public health provides an apt testing ground for such claims about voluntarism and post-ideological politics. The scholarly narrative has articulated a decline and fall of the public health function within the state.…”