The social transformation of American medicine
By: Paul Starr.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: Medical care -- United States -- History; Social medicine -- United States -- History; Physicians -- United States -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.