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Review of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Reform
Author(s) -
Clendenin Barry
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
world medical and health policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1948-4682
DOI - 10.1515/1948-4682.1239
Subject(s) - politics , perspective (graphical) , health reform , social reform , sociology , health care reform , political science , health policy , political economy , law , health care , art , visual arts
Health reform's history in the United States has taken unexpected turns over the past century, often reflecting political and philosophical divisions underlying US society. Paul Starr, a Pulitzer Prize author for his book The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1984), has written a thoroughly readable and carefully documented history of health reform from the perspective of a historian, sociologist and a participant in health reform's policy debates.