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...

"Meticulously tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and economy in health care, Peter A. Swenson illuminates the history of American medical politics from the late nineteenth century to the...

The medical marketplace / Mark S. R. Jenner & Patrick Wallis -- Medical economies in fifteenth-century England / Robert Ralley -- Competition and cooperation in the early modern medical economy / Patrick Wallis -- The rural medical marketplace in southern England c.1570-1720 / Ian Mortimer --...