Today we discuss Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", published in 1982. Specifically we focus on the introduction and chapter I, which begins to detail how American medicine went from a largely unorganized, unlicensed, lower class trade in the late 18th/early 19th century to the priestly profession it is today.

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