The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s [electronic resource].

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The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organization in the World 1880s-1930sanalyzes core themes from a business history perspective to reach a new understanding about the history of modern large scale healthcare institutions, from the United States to China, with particular attention to Spain.

Chapter 1. Health spending and hospitals in the world in a long term perspective -- Chapter 2. New hospitals and new ideas for the management of large hospitals in western Europe (1880s-1930s) -- Chapter 3. New ideas in hospital organization in the United States of America: war needs, industrial organization, philanthropy, and the new scientific medicine -- Chapter 4. New hospital organization in Russia and Asia. Between capitalism, communism, and imperialism -- Chapter 5. Latin America. Between local innovation and the influence of colonial times, Western European science and North American standardization forces -- Chapter 6. New models of hospital organization and management in the early 20th century in a large city: Barcelona -- Chapter 7. Conclusions. New hospitals, new managers, new patterns of hospital organization.

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