Accounting for health: Calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500–2000

Accounting for health: Calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500–2000
ISBN-10
1526135183
ISBN-13
9781526135186
Category
Medical
Pages
362
Language
English
Published
2021-01-12
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Axel C. Hüntelmann, Oliver Falk

Description

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.

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