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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404145703321

Autore

Moore Martin D.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK, : Manchester University Press, 2019

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2019]

©2019

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (256 p.)

Collana

Social Histories of Medicine ; ; 15

Disciplina

362.1964620094109045

Soggetti

Social & cultural history

History of medicine

Diabetes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.