Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine
Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain
Seiten
2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1307-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1307-8 (ISBN)
Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine. -- .
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing literature has cast health care management as either a political imposition or an assertion of medical control, this work positions managerial medicine as a co-constructed venture. Although driven by different motives, doctors, nurses, professional bodies, government agencies and international organisations were all integral to the creation of managerial systems, working within a context of considerable professional, political, technological, economic and cultural change. -- .
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing literature has cast health care management as either a political imposition or an assertion of medical control, this work positions managerial medicine as a co-constructed venture. Although driven by different motives, doctors, nurses, professional bodies, government agencies and international organisations were all integral to the creation of managerial systems, working within a context of considerable professional, political, technological, economic and cultural change. -- .
Martin D. Moore is a Research Fellow in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter -- .
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Managing diabetes, managing medicine
1 Chronicity and the care team in Britain’s New Jerusalem
2 Diabetes, risk management, and the birth of modern primary care
3 The making of integrated care
4 Retinopathy screening and the new politics of prevention
5 Constructing standards at a time of crisis
6 Making managerial policy in the neoliberal moment
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.05.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Histories of Medicine |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 b&w images, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 517 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Diabetologie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-1307-4 / 1526113074 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-1307-8 / 9781526113078 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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