This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan. In the past hundred years, medicine has gone from being a charitable activity to a large economic sector, amounting to 12–15% of the GDP in many developed countries, and one of the fastest-growing businesses around the world. Despite the mounting presence of the medical industry, there is a lack of academic work detailing this major transformation. The objective of this book is to fill this gap and address the following question: how did medicine become a business? Using over ten years of research in the field, Pierre-Yves Donzé argues that economic factors and business factors were decisive in transforming the way that medicine enters our lives. This book will be of interest to historians of medicine, business historians, health economists, scholars in medical humanities, and more.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The emergence of an industry
Chapter 2: The birth of a new medical discipline
Chapter 3: Cooperation between enterprises and medical doctors
Chapter 4: The impact of radiology on hospital management
Chapter 5: The regulation of the hospital system
Conclusion
Pierre-Yves Donzé is a professor of business history at Osaka University, Japan and a visiting professor at Fribourg University, Switzerland.
This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan. In the past hundred years, medicine has gone from being a charitable activity to a large economic sector, amounting to 12–15% of the GDP in many developed countries, and one of the fastest-growing businesses around the world. Despite the mounting presence of the medical industry, there is a lack of academic work detailing this major transformation. The objective of this book is to fill this gap and address the following question: how did medicine become a business? Using over ten years of research in the field, Pierre-Yves Donzé argues that economic factors and business factors were decisive in transforming the way that medicine enters our lives. This book will be of interest to historians of medicine, business historians, health economists, scholars in medical humanities, and more. Trail blazes an innovative set of historical and economic analyses to explain the emergence of a major business sector
Explains the economics behind the emergence of technological and medical innovations focusing not only on breakthroughs but also mass access to medicine
Offers insights into the ongoing challenges of offering medical access globally using examples of past successes
Trail blazes an innovative set of historical and economic analyses to explain the emergence of a major business sector
Explains the economics behind the emergence of technological and medical innovations focusing not only on breakthroughs but also mass access to medicine
Offers insights into the ongoing challenges of offering medical access globally using examples of past successes
