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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

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Originally published
  
1982

Genre
  
Non-fiction


Author
  
Paul Starr

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Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Bancroft Prize

Similar
  
Paul Starr books, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners, Medicine books

The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982. It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the Bancroft Prize.

Capers Jones wrote,

  • Paul Starr's book detailed the attempts of the American Medical Association to improve academic training of physicians, establish a canon of professional malpractice to weed out quacks, and to improve the professional status of physicians.
  • References

    The Social Transformation of American Medicine Wikipedia