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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8763159 Title: The social transformation of American medicine Author: Paul Starr Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©1982. ISBN/ISSN: 0465079342 9780465079346 0465079350 9780465079353 OCLC:8763159

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The social transformation of American medicine

Author:	Paul Starr
Publisher:	New York : Basic Books, ©1982.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Starr, Paul, 1949- Social transformation of American medicine. New York : Basic Books, c1982 (OCoLC)644954429
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Paul Starr Find more information about:
ISBN:	0465079342 9780465079346 0465079350 9780465079353
OCLC Number:	8763159
Awards:	Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1984.
Description:	xiv, 514 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	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 Segregation of Disorder -- The Market and Professional Autonomy -- The Consolidation of Professional Authority, 1850-1930 -- Physicians and Social Structure in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America -- Class -- Status -- Powerlessness -- Medicine's Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Origins of Medical Sectarianism -- Conflict and Convergence -- Licensing and Organization -- Medical Education and the Restoration of Occupational Control -- Reform from Above -- Consolidating the System -- The Aftermath of Reform -- The Retreat of Private Judgment -- Authority over Medication -- Ambiguity and Competence.
Responsibility:	Paul Starr.
More information:	Contributor biographical information

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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.

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