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The Product of Medicine

How Efficiency Made American Health Care

Caitjan Gainty (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2842-0 (ISBN)

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In The Product of Medicine, Caitjan Gainty traces the history of the early twentieth-century medical efficiency movement in the United States, restoring it as a significant driver of medicine’s modernization while also revealing its broader significance as a cultural force shaping modern American life. Covering a range of examples of efficiency’s uses in medicine—from the assembly-line structure of the early Mayo Clinic and the Henry Ford Hospital to the landmark Flexner Report and the prosecution of the American Medical Association as a monopoly—Gainty challenges longstanding presumptions about how medicine acquired power and prestige during the Progressive era. Rather than a result of pathbreaking scientific advance or the rise of professional organizations, Gainty demonstrates how it is through the more prosaic processes of standardization and organization that medicine comes to be understood as modern. In doing so, Gainty uncovers medical efficiency as not only a function of industrial capitalism, but also as a vehicle for balancing populist and autocratic tendencies to maintain a workable American democracy.

Caitjan Gainty is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King’s College, London.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Product 17
2. The Factory 39
3. The Standard 63
4. The Labor 91
5. The Market 115
6. Monopoly 139
Afterword 163
Notes 169
Bibliography 199
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.4.2025
Zusatzinfo	13 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4780-2842-4 / 1478028424
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2842-0 / 9781478028420
Zustand	Neuware