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."The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."--H. Jack Geiger, M.D., "New York Times Book Review"
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Paul Starr is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and its Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine and The Creation of the Media. Starr is the co-founder and editor of The American Prospect. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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This review is from: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (Paperback)
This Pulitzer Prize winning history of American Medicine does a lot to explain why the domain of public health is so small in the U.S., and why health in the U.S. is mostly a private, as opposed to public, matter. It takes some fortitude to get through, but it should be required reading for anyone who has ever wondered why, for better and for worse, the US is the only developed country that does not have social provision of medical care. Hint: It's not an accident. Recommended
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Read this to understand American healthcare.,
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This review is from: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (Paperback)
Since this book was written in 1985, I have used it to teach medical students about the changes in American healthcare. The last chapter, "The Coming of the Corporation," forecasts what has happened in the last decade. This book is a must for all who want to understand why the changes are occurring in American healthcare
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Great history of American medicine,
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This review is from: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (Paperback)
For anyone interested in the healthcare as a profession or area of study, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Despite the 20 years since its publication, Paul Starr's Pulitzer prize winner is still relevant today and in retrospect his projections made of the future of healthcare in America are surpisingly prescient. The first book describes the development of the medical profession in early America providing a fascinating look at the social evolution of American society. The second book delineates the rise of doctors, hospitals and medical schools in latter half of the 19th to the early 20th century with the rise of science and a professional authority. The third book shifts the focus from the doctors and to the industry that medicine became as well as the various attempts at healthcare reform in response to rising healthcare costs. My only criticism is that Starr should have devoted more pages to the root causes behind the rising healthcare costs that drove the reforms of the 1960-70s described in the third book.
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THE DREAM of reason did not take power into account. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private group clinics, professional sovereignty, dispensary abuse, group practice plans, multihospital systems, lodge practice, bargaining for health, compulsory health insurance, medical cooperatives, insurance movement, voluntary health insurance, prepayment plans, neighborhood health centers, indemnity benefits, private health plans, indirect prices, prepaid group practice, patent medicine companies, proprietary hospitals, medical sects, welfare medicine, voluntary hospitals, hospital finance, school health programs, national health program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Blue Cross, United States, World War, Blue Shield, Civil War, New Deal, Johns Hopkins, Public Health Service, New England, Supreme Court, San Francisco, House of Delegates, Book One, Michael Davis, American Hospital Association, Lloyd George, Mayo Clinic, New Jersey, Benjamin Rush, Christian Science, Surgeon General, American College of Surgeons, Christian Scientists, Los Angeles New!
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private group clinics, professional sovereignty, dispensary abuse, group practice plans, multihospital systems, lodge practice, bargaining for health, compulsory health insurance, medical cooperatives, insurance movement, voluntary health insurance, prepayment plans, neighborhood health centers, indemnity benefits, private health plans, indirect prices, prepaid group practice, patent medicine companies, proprietary hospitals, medical sects, welfare medicine, voluntary hospitals, hospital finance, school health programs, national health program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Blue Cross, United States, World War, Blue Shield, Civil War, New Deal, Johns Hopkins, Public Health Service, New England, Supreme Court, San Francisco, House of Delegates, Book One, Michael Davis, American Hospital Association, Lloyd George, Mayo Clinic, New Jersey, Benjamin Rush, Christian Science, Surgeon General, American College of Surgeons, Christian Scientists, Los Angeles New!
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- Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America by E. Richard Brown on 4 pages
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- American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science by Professor William G. Rothstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- American Medicine and the Public Interest: Updated Edition with a New Introduction by Rosemary Stevens in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Medical Inquiries and Observations (Medicine & Society in America) by Benjamin Rush in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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