Accounting for Health

Axel C. Hüntelmann is Research Fellow in the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Charité – University of Medicine Berlin Oliver Falk is Research Fellow in the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich -- .

Introduction – Axel C Hüntelmann and Oliver Falk

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 – Jean-Paul Gaudillière and 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 healthcare and the management of manpower – Sebastian Pranghofer
12 Miners’ chest: How performative accounting forged the ills of industry – J. Andrew Mendelsohn
13 Administrating sickness: Th e 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

Index -- .