1st Edition

Technology and the Welfare State The Influence of Technological Change upon the Development of Health Care in Britain and America

By Stephen Uttley Copyright 1991
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

Technology and the Welfare State (1991) explores the relationship between technological innovation, welfare and levels of economic activity. Drawing on a wide literature spanning many disciplines, it explores the influence of technological change upon the development of health service production in America and Britain since the mid-nineteenth century. The analysis is based upon a broad... Read more

Part 1. Health Care and Technological Change  1. Technological Change and Social Service Production  2. Technological Change and Health Care  3. Production, Consumption and Health Care  4. Political Innovation Health Care  5. Technological Change and Economic Cycles  Part 2. Technology and the Welfare State  6. Technology and the Welfare State: A Missing Dimension

Biography

Stephen Uttley