1st Edition
Medicine, Money, and Meaning Practicing Money and Making Medicine
By Luka Jakelja
Copyright 2026
206 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are.
It empirically illustrates Georg Simmel’s conceptualization of money as an "absolute means" and simultaneously develops an action theory of money, based on money attitudes. The author draws on 38... Read more
Introduction 1. Potentialities of Money: Medicine as a Means or an End 2. Money Attitudes and Hierarchies of Values 3. Contexts of Medical Practice: Private, Public, and Disciplinary 4. Causes of Money Attitudes 5. Conditions of Action 6. Money Attitudes and What Doctors Do 7. Consequences: Meaninglessness, Burnout, Loneliness Conclusion
Biography
Luka Jakelja was University Assistant at the University of Graz, Austria, and Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture in Graz. He has also held a teaching position at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is currently working as a counsellor in private practice in Graz.
