Health care history

In conclusion

It is my belief that system comparers, if they would engage themselves in my proposed project, would be engaged in one of the most exciting and necessary activities in health care reflection of our time: namely,a creative reconstruction of the empirical base-stories about medical practices and their public significance.

As practical and theoretical workers in health care we continuously exercise our political being. The task to provide a more elaborate description of practices at different levels of medical systems is a political exercise. And when such a description would do greater justice to the role of ‘things’⋆ as actors in the health care system, or open creative ways to articulate barely worked out patterns of practical interrelation, it could easily be conceived of as an exercise in political innovation.