The Emergence Of Modern Hospital Management And Organisation In The World 1880s-1930s Av Paloma (University Of Barcelona Spain) Fernandez Perez

<i>The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s</i> uses a range of empirical evidences and case studies drawn from previously unpublished archival sources to offer one of the first international comparative studies on the transformation and modernization of hospital management globally, a century ago. <div><br></div><div>Focusing in the key years between the 1880s and the 1930s, when millions of people crossed the globe and created new large health care needs in the largest cities of the world, Paloma Fern¿ez-P¿z analyzes core themes from a business history perspective, like organization, ownership and the professionalization of management, 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. </div><div><br></div><div>The book analyses how varying institutional factors, as well as specific national elements, have influenced the applicati