Accounting for health : calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500-2000 / edited by Axel C. Hüntelmann, Oliver Falk.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Social histories of medicine.
Other Authors: Hüntelmann, Axel C. (Editor)
Falk, Oliver (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Series:Social histories of medicine.
Subjects:
Social medicine > History.
Public health > Economic aspects.
Medicine > History.
Accounting.
Medicine.
Social medicine.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvii, 397 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 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. M̀aking 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
  • pt. II Household
  • 4. Economies of the hospital, 1790-1910 / Axel C. Hiintelmann
  • 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
  • pt. 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 / 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
  • pt. IV Polity
  • 11. States of healing in early modern Germany: Military health care and the management of manpower / Sebastian Pranghofer
  • 12. Miners' chest: How performative accounting forged the ills of industry / J. Andrew Mendelsohn
  • 13. Administrating sickness: The 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.