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The Love Life of Utilitarianism

Agnes Arnold-Forster

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Guy's Hospital Tower. Source: Wikimedia. 

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January 2025










Notes
1

Agnes Arnold-Forster and Caitjan Gainty, “To Save the NHS We Need to Stop Loving It,” Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 29, no. 4 (2021): 53–61.

2

Rowena Mason, “Boris Johnson leaves hospital as he continues recovery from coronavirus,” The Guardian, April 12, 2020.

3

David H. Solkin, “Samaritan or Scrooge? The Contested Image of Thomas Guy in Eighteenth-Century England,” The Art Bulletin 78, no. 3 (1996): 467–84.

4

John Mohan, “Geography and Social Policy: Spatial divisions of welfare,” Progress in Human Geography 27, no. 3 (2003): 363-374.

5

Alistair Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’: The National Health Service, the Hospital Plan, and the ‘Harness’ Programme, 1962–77,” Twentieth Century British History 29, no. 4 (2018): 547–75.

6

Charles Webster, The Health Services Since the War, Volume 1: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service Before 1957 (London: HMSO, 1988).

7

Quoted in Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’,” 547.

8

Jonathan Hughes, “The ‘Matchbox on a Muffin’: The Design of Hospitals in the Early NHS,” Medical History 44, no. 1 (2000): 21–56.

9

Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”

10

Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”

11

National Health Service, A Hospital Plan for England and Wales, Command 1604 (London: HMSO, 1962).

12

Quoted in Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”

13

National Health Service, A Hospital Plan for England and Wales.

14

Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”

15

Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’;” Ed DeVane, “Pilgrim’s Progress: The Landscape of the NHS Hospital, 1948–70,” Twentieth Century British History 32, no.4 (2021): 534–552.

16

Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”

17

David Edgerton has critiqued the declinism of Britain’s twentieth-century historiography. David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (London: Allen Lane, 2018).

18

Department of Health for Scotland, Hospital Endowments: Report of the Hospital Endowments Commission (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1955), paragraph 26. See also Bernard Harris and Rosemary Cresswell, “The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS,” Economic History Review 77 (2024): 554–583, 574.

19

TNA MH99/37, “NHS: Appeals for funds, etc.,” para. 2 (18/12/48) (RHB (48) 41A; HMC (48) 25A; BG (48) 23A).

20

Endowments Committee Minutes, May 1963–March 1968, H09/GY/A/342/005, London Metropolitan Archive.

21

Endowments Committee Minutes, May 1963–March 1968, H09/GY/A/342/005, London Metropolitan Archive.

22

Ibid.

23

Ibid.

24

Ibid.

25

See Victoria Bates, “Cold White of Day: White, Colour, and Materiality in the Twentieth-Century British Hospital,” Twentieth-Century British History 34, no. 1 (2023): 1–37.

26

Bates, “Cold White of Day.”

27

“Guy’s Tower,” 1976, H09/GY/A/365/025, London Metropolitan Archive.

28

Hughes, “The ‘Matchbox on a Muffin’.”