Managing diabetes, managing medicine : chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain /
Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, <i>Managing diabetes, managing medicine</i> offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Wh...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Open Access Edition. |
| Series: | Social histories of medicine.
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| Summary: | Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, <i>Managing diabetes, managing medicine</i> 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. "<I>Managing diabetes, managing medicine</i> examines the emergence of managed medicine in Britain. Through its study of diabetes care in the twentieth century, this book offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Whereas 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 - even conflicting - motives, doctors and nurses, national professional and patient bodies, British government agencies, and influential international organisations were all integral to the creation of managerial systems in Britain; all working within a context of considerable professional, political, technological, economic and cultural change. By focusing on changes within the management of a single disease at the forefront of broader developments, <i>Managing diabetes, managing medicine</i> is able to tie together British developments across a number of sites at different scales of change, from the very local innovations of single towns to the debates of specialists and professional leaders at international levels. Drawing on a broad range of archival materials, published journals and textbooks, newspapers and oral histories, this book develops fresh insights into the history of managed healthcare, the NHS, and post-war government more broadly. Providing an important window onto crucial features of modern British medicine and society, it will be of interest to scholars and students across a range of historical, sociological and political scientific disciplines." -- Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Made available via: manchesterhive. MUP 2020 titles. Manchester Open Access Titles KU Open Research Library EBSCO eBook Open Access (OA) Collection |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iv, 308 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s). |
| Audience: | Students and academics of modern medical systems, and particularly of post-war British health and social care. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526113092 1526113090 |
