"The definitive social history of the medical profession in America. .... a monumental achievement ... laced with wit and irony and graced with style. For all its scholarship, it is intensely readable - and intensely relevant ... should become the reference standard for every citizen'a understanding of medical care, the sourcebook for every Congressional debate over our social commitments to the ill and a guide to the humane system we may yet create."
~ H Jack Geiger, MD, Front Page,
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"The most ambitious and important analysis of American medicine to appear in over a decade ... If you read only one book about american medicine, this is the one you should read."
~Ronald Numbers,
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"A tour de force - a provocative, insightful study that is both scholarly and readable."
~ Arnold Relman, Editor, New England Journal of Medicine
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"Superb sociology, superior history - and essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of American medicine.
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"A major work by one of the best sociologists of his generation."
~ Daniel Bell, Harvard University
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"Brilliant, an important contribution, a book that anyone with a serious interest in the field out to read."
~ Alain Enthoven, Stanford Business School
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Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction, the 1984 Bancroft Prize in American history and the 1983 C. Wright Mills Award in sociology.
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