The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982. [1] It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction [2] as well as the Bancroft Prize. [3]
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." [4]
A second edition with a new epilogue by Starr was published in 2017.