Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500-2000 - Hardcover
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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.
Axel C. Hüntelmann is Research Fellow in the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Charité - University of Medicine Berlin
Oliver Falk is Research Fellow in the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of ZurichContributor(s)
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