Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine

Download or read book Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine written by Martin D. Moore and published by Social Histories of Medicine. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.