The social transformation of American medicine

The social transformation of American medicine / Paul Starr.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Starr, Paul, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, ©1982.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Subjects:
Medical care > United States > History.
Social medicine > United States > History.
Physicians > United States > History.
Medicine > History.
history of medicine.
Medicine
Medical care
Physicians
Social medicine
Geneeskunde.
Artsen.
Professionalisering.
Soins médicaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecins > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine sociale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Medical care > History.
Social medicine > History.
Physicians > History.
United States
History
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Table of 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.

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