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The social transformation of American medicine / Paul Starr.
- Format:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (529 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2017.
- New York : Basic Books, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- “A monumental achievement” ( New York Times ) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of the American health care system. Considered the definitive history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the nineteenth century become a prosperous one in the twentieth? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical system today? Beginning in 1760 and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr traces the decline of professional sovereignty in medicine, the political struggles over health care, and the rise of a corporate system. Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught health care system.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; BOOK ONE: A SOVEREIGN PROFESSION - The Rise of Medical Authority and the Shaping of the Medical System ; INTRODUCTION ; The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty; 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 - Doctors, the State, and the Coming of the Corporation 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; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781541698581
- 1541698584
- 9780465093038
- 0465093035
- 9780786725458
- 0786725451
- 9780465079346
- 0465079342
- OCLC:
- 890529554
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb00104 hdl
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