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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hüntelmann, Axel C., editor.

Falk, Oliver, 1978- editor.

Series:

Social histories of medicine.

Social histories of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Europe--Finance--History.

Medical care.

Medical care, Cost of--Europe--History.

Medical care, Cost of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective it investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world.

Contents:

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. Hüntelmann

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 / 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 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 12, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-3517-5

OCLC:

1233310800