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Managing diabetes, managing medicine
Chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain
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) licence.
