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Title: Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr ISBN: 0-465-07935-0 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: April, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great history of American medicine
Comment: For anyone interested in the healthcare as a profession or area of study, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Despite the 20 years since its publication, Paul Starr's Pulitzer prize winner is still relevant today and in retrospect his projections made of the future of healthcare in America are surpisingly prescient.
The first book describes the development of the medical profession in early America providing a fascinating look at the social evolution of American society. The second book delineates the rise of doctors, hospitals and medical schools in latter half of the 19th to the early 20th century with the rise of science and a professional authority. The third book shifts the focus from the doctors and to the industry that medicine became as well as the various attempts at healthcare reform in response to rising healthcare costs.
My only criticism is that Starr should have devoted more pages to the root causes behind the rising healthcare costs that drove the reforms of the 1960-70s described in the third book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Blame it on the AMA
Comment: This book traces the evolution of America's disjointed healthcare system, from the horror of the early hospitals to the formation of the medical profession. It also explains how, as the early profession was fighting for the right to exist, it took virtual possession of the rest of the healthcare system. Every Democratic president since FDR has attempted some type of major healthcare reform, only to be opposed by the American Medical Association (AMA) because organized doctorhood thought it had too much to lose.
This book is an effortless read for students of sociology or those that have a great interest in the history of medicine. Published in 1983, it easily predicts some of the current problems in American healthcare, because the powerful interests that determine the delivery of healthcare are still the same. It also predicts some of the circumstances that will finally bring America around to some sort of rational, universal, healthcare coverage.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why the US has a private health care system
Comment: This Pulitzer Prize winning history of American Medicine does a lot to explain why the domain of public health is so small in the U.S., and why health in the U.S. is mostly a private, as opposed to public, matter. It takes some fortitude to get through, but it should be required reading for anyone who has ever wondered why, for better and for worse, the US is the only developed country that does not have social provision of medical care. Hint: It's not an accident. Recommended
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Title: Understanding Health Policy by Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach ISBN: 0071378154 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System by Charles E. Rosenberg ISBN: 0801850827 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century by Rosemary Stevens ISBN: 0801860490 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care (California/Milbank Series on Health and the Public, 1) by James C. Robinson ISBN: 0520220765 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Politics of Medicare (Social Institutions and Social Change) by Theodore R. Marmor ISBN: 0202304256 Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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