The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Release on 2008-08-06 | by Paul Starr

Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, this new edition of The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught healthcare ...

Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9780786725458
Category: Medical
Page: 352
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare 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 most prosperous one in the twentieth century? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical care 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 healthcare, and the rise of a corporate system. Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, this new edition of The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught healthcare system.

Language: en
Pages: 352

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Authors: Paul Starr

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-06 - Publisher: Hachette UK

Language: en
Pages: 592

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Authors: Paul Starr

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-30 - Publisher: Hachette UK

Language: en
Pages: 1034

Transforming American Medicine

Authors: Timothy S. Jost, Keith Wailoo, Mark Schlesinger

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher:

Rife with criticism, praise, and in-depth analysis of Paul Starr’s work, this lengthy special issue brings together scholars from many disciplines to offer a comprehensive assessment of the life, the times, the promise, the problems, and the paradox

Language: en
Pages: 213

A History of the Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo, New York, 1848-1900

Authors: Jean Richardson

Categories: Health & Fitness

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:

Uncovers the history of challenges faced and overcome as the hospital moved from being a 100-bed facility, run single-handedly by three women, to a modern hospital facility with 600 beds.

Language: en
Pages: 504

Sympathy and Science

Authors: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-12 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles