Medicine, Money, and Meaning
This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are.
It empirically illustrates Georg Simmel’s conceptualization of money as an "absolute means" and simultaneously develops an action theory of money, based on money attitudes. The author draws on 38 semi-st...
This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are.
It empirically illustrates Georg Simmel’s conceptualization of money as an "absolute means" and simultaneously develops an action theory of money, based on money attitudes. The author draws on 38 semi-st...
