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BOOK REVIEW
The National Health Service in Scotland: origins and ideals, 1900–1950
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Edited by Morrice McCrae. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2003, £25.00 (hardback), pp 278. ISBN 1 86232 216 3
At the back of an old family album is a photograph of a bewhiskered gentleman posing with his wife on the steps of a grand house with a pillared portico, surrounded by his staff including the chauffeur of the Rolls Royce that was de rigeur at that level of society. He was my great-uncle, a successful practitioner in Burslem, and his financial success contrasted with that of his brother, a Glasgow obstetrician, who lived in comfortable but by no means plutocratic style, his earning capacity restricted by time spent …