9780192865748.pdf

• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Oxford University Press 2022

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, it shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, and citizens each concerned themselves with measuring sickness. At various...