Managing diabetes managing medicine

<p>Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain <i>Managing diabetes managing medicine</i> 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.<br><br>An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.</p>