The Business of Health (eBook, PDF)

New Approaches to the Evolution of Health Systems in the World
Redaktion: Donzé, Pierre-Yves; Fernández Pérez, Paloma

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of health care business around the world during the twentieth century. Through a broad range of cases in Asia, Europe, and the US, it shows how health was transformed into a fast-growing and diversified industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000544954
• Artikelnr.: 63104144

Autorenporträt

Pierre-Yves Donzé is Professor of Business History at Osaka University, Japan, and Visiting Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is co-editor of the journal Business History. His research focuses on the history of the global dynamics of industries (hospitals and medtech, watchmaking, fashion and luxury). Paloma Fernández Pérez is Professor of Economic and Business History at Universitat de Barcelona. She is former co-editor of the journal, Business History and co-editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business. Fernández Pérez is an expert in history of entrepreneurship in industries and services. Her most recent book is The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organization in the World 1880s-1930s (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Health Industries in the Twentieth Century 2. Learning
from giants: Early exposure to advanced markets in the growth and
internationalisation of Spanish health care corporations in the twentieth
century 3. Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese
surgical needle producer MANI, 1956-2016 4. Challenging the Problem of
'Fit': Advancing the Regenerative Medicine Industries in the United States,
Britain and Japan 5. 'Importance of Germany to Countries around and to
World Economy makes it impossible to ignore' - The Rockefeller Foundation
and Public Health in Germany after WWII 6. Socialisation of healthcare
demand and development of the French health system (1890-1938) 7. China:
The development of the health system during the Maoist period (1949-76) 8.
Architects and knowledge transfer in hospital systems: The introduction of
Western hospital designs in Japan (1918-1970) 9. The genesis, growth and
organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain
(1915-2015)