Managing diabetes, managing medicine : : Chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain / / Martin D. Moore.

• VerfasserIn: Moore, Martin D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (256 p.)

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. 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.