Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine - Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain

Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine.

List of 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

About the author

Martin D. Moore is a Research Fellow in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter

Summary

Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Martin Moore, Martin D. Moore
• Assisted by: David Cantor (Editor), Keir Waddington (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781526113078
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1307-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General