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Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize And The Bancroft Prize In American History, This Is A Landmark History Of How The Entire American Health Care System Of Doctors, Hospitals, Health Plans, And Government Programs Has Evolved Over The Last Two Centuries. A Sovereign Profession: The Rise Of Medical Authority And The Shaping Of The Medical System -- Introduction: The Social Origins Of Professional Sovereignty -- The Roots Of Authority -- Dependence And Legitimacy -- Cultural Authority And Occupational Control -- Steps In A Transformation -- The Growth Of Medical Authority -- From Authority To Economic Power -- Strategic Position And The Defense Of Autonomy -- Medicine In A Democratic Culture, 1760-1850 -- Domestic Medicine -- Professional Medicine -- From England To America -- Professional Education On An Open Market -- The Frustration Of Professionalism -- The Medical Counterculture -- Popular Medicine -- The Thomsonians And The Frustration Of Anti-professionalism -- The Eclipse Of Legitimate Complexity -- The Expansion Of The Market -- The Emerging Market Before The Civil War -- The Changing Ecology Of Medical Practice -- The Local Transportation Revolution -- Work, Time, And The Segregat

Who reads The social transformation of American medicine?

Author

Paul Starr

Publisher

New York: Basic Books

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9781541698581

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (717 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14