Medicine
March 2019
Managing diabetes, managing medicine
Chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain
by Martin Moore, Keir Waddington, David Cantor
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. Drawing on a broad range of historical sources, this book develops fresh insights into the history of managed healthcare, the NHS, and post-war government more broadly.
