Hardcover, 514 pages
English language
Published 1982 by Basic Books.
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
by Paul Starr
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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.
Subjects
- Medical care -- United States -- History
- Social medicine -- United States -- History
- Physicians -- United States -- History