Managing diabetes, managing medicine

Chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain

Martin D. Moore

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781526113078
• eBook ISBN: 9781526113085
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Figures and tables
• Acknowledgements
• 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