Full Description
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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Contents
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
