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The social transformation of American medicine / Paul Starr.
Loaned to Another Library RA395.A3 S77 2017
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starr, Paul, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States--History.
- Medical care.
- Social medicine--United States--History.
- Social medicine.
- Physicians--United States--History.
- Physicians.
- History.
- United States.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Insurance, Health--history.
- Professional Corporations--history.
- Professionalism--history.
- Public Health--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Insurance, Health--history.
- Professional Corporations--history.
- Professionalism--history.
- Public Health--history.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 571 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Winner of the 1983 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."-- Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Book one. A sovereign profession. Introduction
- Chapter one. Medicine in a democratic culture, 1760-1850.
- Chapter two. The expansion of the market
- Chapter three. The consolidation of professional authority, 1850-1930
- Chapter four. The reconstitution of the hospital
- Chapter five. The boundaries of public health
- Chapter six. Escape from the corporation, 1900-1930
- Book two. The struggle for medical care. Chapter one. The mirage of reform
- Chapter two. The triumph of accommodation
- Chapter three. The liberal years
- Chapter four. End of a mandate
- Chapter five. The coming of the corporation.
- Notes:
- "With a new epilogue by the author"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-547) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465093021
- 0465093027
- OCLC:
- 988540820
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