Accounting for health : calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500-2000
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Accounting for health : calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500-2000
(Social histories of medicine)
Manchester University Press, 2021
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good health and well-being. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction - Axel C Huntelmann and Oliver Falk
Part I: Keeping the books
1 Accounting, religion, and the economics of medical care in sixteenth-century Germany: Hiob Finzel's Rationarium praxeos medicae, 1565-89 - Michael Stolberg
2 'Making a living': Accounting and the medical market in and around Geneva, 1760-1820 - Philip Rieder
3 Accounted bodies and counted cases: Elliott Joslin's diabetes research, 1898-1950 - Oliver Falk
Part II: Household
4 Economies of the hospital, 1790-1910 - Axel C Huntelmann
5 Contrasting accounting practices in the urban hospitals of England and France, 1890s to 1930s - Barry M. Doyle
6 Reforming on paper: Accounting practices in the Leuven Academic Hospitals, 1920-60 - Joris Vandendriessche
7 Asylum accounts in health and in money - Theodore M. Porter
Part III: Production
8 Charitable accounting: The Royal Jennerian Society and vaccine production - Andrea Rusnock
9 The industry of clinical trials and the rise of medico-economic accounting: The case of antidepressants, 1970-90 - Jean-Paul Gaudilliere and Volker Hess
10 Accounting for Esther Smucker: The Mennonite Church, the US National Institutes of Health and the trade in healthy bodies, 1950-70 - Laura Stark
Part IV: Polity
11 States of healing in early modern Germany: Military healthcare and the management of manpower - Sebastian Pranghofer
12 Miners' chest: How performative accounting forged the ills of industry - J. Andrew Mendelsohn
13 Administrating sickness: Th e workings of an all-female sickness fund, 1898-1931 - Helene Castenbrandt
14 The health of nations: International health accounting in historical perspective, 1925-2011 - Christopher Sirrs
Index -- .
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