| Description |
xiv, 514 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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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Medical care -- United States -- History.
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Social medicine -- United States -- History.
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Physicians -- United States -- History.
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History, Modern 1601- -- United States.
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History of Medicine -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Starr, Paul, 1949- Social transformation of American medicine. New York : Basic Books, c1982 (OCoLC)644954429 |
| ISBN |
0465079342 |
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9780465079346 |
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0465079350 paperback |
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9780465079353 paperback |
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