Martin D. Moore 
Managing diabetes, managing medicine 
Chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain,
Managing diabetes, managing medicine 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.

Table of Content

List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: Managing diabetes, managing medicine 1 Chronicity and the care team in Britain’s New Jerusalem 2 Diabetes, risk management, and the birth of modern primary care 3 The making of integrated care 4 Retinopathy screening and the new politics of prevention 5 Constructing standards at a time of crisis 6 Making managerial policy in the neoliberal moment Epilogue Bibliography Index

About the author

Martin D. Moore is a Research Fellow in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter