Title The social transformation of American medicine / Paul Starr

Published New York : Basic Books, ©1982

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 514 pages) Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) Contents A Sovereign Profession: The Rise of Medical Authority and the Shaping of the Medical System -- Introduction: The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty -- 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 -- Medicine in a Democratic Culture, 1760-1850 -- 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 -- The Expansion of the Market -- 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 -- The Consolidation of Professional Authority, 1850-1930 -- 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 Summary Winner of the 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 Analysis Medical care -- United States -- History Social medicine -- United States -- History Physicians -- United States -- History History of medicine, Modern -- United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Bancroft Prize, 1984 Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1984 Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, 1982 Subject Medical care -- United States -- History Social medicine -- United States -- History Physicians -- United States -- History Medicine -- History. History of Medicine history of medicine. Medicine Medical care Physicians Social medicine Geneeskunde. Artsen. Professionalisering. Medical care -- United States -- History. Social medicine -- United States -- History. Physicians -- United States -- History. Soins médicaux -- États-Unis -- Histoire. Médecins -- États-Unis -- Histoire. Médecine sociale -- États-Unis -- Histoire. Medical care -- History. Social medicine -- History. Physicians -- History. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 81068412 ISBN 0465079342 9780465079346

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