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The social transformation of American medicine / Paul Starr.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Starr, Paul, 1949-
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Medical care--United States--History.; Medical care.; Social medicine--United States--History.; Social medicine.; Physicians--United States--History.; Physicians.; History, Modern 1601-.; History.; United States.
Medical Subjects:: History, Modern 1601-.; United States.
Physical Description:: xiv, 514 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: New York : Basic Books, [1982]
Contents:: Book 1 A Sovereign Profession: The Rise of Medical Authority and the Shaping of the Medical System; Introduction: The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty 3; 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; Chapter 1 Medicine in a Democratic Culture, 1760-1850 30; 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; Chapter 2 The Expansion of the Market 60; 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; Chapter 3 The Consolidation of Professional Authority, 1850-1930 79; 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; The Renewal of Legitimate Complexity; Chapter 4 The Reconstitution of the Hospital 145; The Inner Transformation; Hospitals Before and After 1870; The Making of the Modern Hospital; The Triumph of the Professional Community; The Pattern of the Hospital System; Class, Politics, and Ethnicity; The Peculiar Bureaucracy; Chapter 5 The Boundaries of Public Health 180; Public Health, Private Practice; The Dispensary and the Limits of Charity; Health Departments and the Limits of Government; From Reform to the Checkup; The Modernization of Dirt and the New Public Health; The Prevention of Health Centers; Chapter 6 Escape from the Corporation, 1900-1930 198; Professional Resistance to Corporate Control; Company Doctors and Medical Companies; Consumers' Clubs; The Origins and Limits of Private Group Practice; Capitalism and the Doctors; Why No Corporate Enterprise in Medical Care?; Professionalism and the Division of Labor; The Economic Structure of American Medicine; Book 2 The Struggle for Medical Care: Doctors, the State, and the Coming of the Corporation; Chapter 1 The Mirage of Reform 235; A Comparative Perspective; The Origins of Social Insurance; Why America Lagged; Grand Illusions, 1915-1920; The Democratization of Efficiency; Labor and Capital Versus Reform; Defeat Comes to the Progressives; Evolution in Defeat, 1920-1932; The New Deal and Health Insurance, 1932-1943; The Making of Social Security; The Depression, Welfare Medicine, and the Doctors; A Second Wind; Symbolic Politics, 1943-1950; Socialized Medicine and the Cold War; Three Times Denied; Chapter 2 The Triumph of Accommodation 290; The Birth of the Blues, 1929-1945; The Emergence of Blue Cross; Holding the Line; The Physicians' Shield; The Rise of Private Social Security, 1945-1959; Enter the Unions; A Struggle for Control; The Growth of Prepaid Group Practice; The Commercial Edge; The Accommodation of Insurance; Chapter 3 The Liberal Years 335; Aid and Autonomy, 1945-1960; Public Investment in Science; The Tilt Toward the Hospital; The Structural Impact of Postwar Policy; The New Structure of Opportunity; The New Structure of Power; Redistribution without Reorganization, 1961-1969; The Liberal Opportunity; Redistributive Reform and Its Impact; The Politics of Accommodation; Chapter 4 End of a Mandate 379; Losing Legitimacy, 1970-1974; Discovery of a Crisis; The Contradictions of Accommodation; The Generalization of Rights; The Conservative Assimilation of Reform; Health Policy in a Blocked Society, 1975-1980; An Obstructed Path; The Generalization of Doubt; The Liberal Impasse; The Reprivatization of the Public Household; Chapter 5 The Coming of the Corporation 420; Zero-Sum Medical Practice; The Doctor "Surplus" and Competition; Collision Course; The Growth of Corporate Medicine; Elements of the Corporate Transformation; The Consolidation of the Hospital System; The Decomposition of Voluntarism; The Trajectory of Organization; Doctors, Corporations, and the State.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:: HSP Copy: HSP Historic Technology, Science and Enterprise Collection
ISBN:: 0465079342 :
OCLC:: 8763159

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