Accounting for health: Calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500–2000 (Social Histories of Medicine)

By: David Cantor

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Synopsis: Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare – for at least 500 years, accounting has been an essential part of medical practice with significant moral, social and epistemological implications. Covering the period between 1500–2000, the book examines in short case studies the importance of calculative practices for medicine in very different contexts. Thus, Accounting for Health offers a synopsis of the extent to which accounting not only influenced medical practices over centuries, but shaped modern medicine as a whole.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 416 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781526135186
Related ISBNs:: 9781526135179, 9781526135162
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/11/21
Copyrighted By:: Manchester University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Medicine, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Axel C. Hüntelmann
Edited by:: Oliver Falk