1st Edition
The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum
By Tiago Moreira
Copyright 2012
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shaping and delivery of health care), the laboratory (science, experiments and 'evidence' in the... Read more
Introduction: Knowledge and the Transformation of Health Care 1. Health Care Reform and the Social Sciences: The (Not So) Great Transformation? 2. Conceptualising Health Care Change: Regimes, Implements, Boundaries 3. The Market: A Biography of the QALY 4. The Laboratory: The Making of Evidence in Health Care 5. The Forum: Choreographing Public Deliberation 6. The Situated Complexity of Health Care 7. Conclusion
Biography
Tiago Moreira is Lecturer in Sociology at Durham University.
