... 0465081932 , $ 27.50 This impressive survey by the author of a seminal work on US medicine deserves the advanced praise displayed on its book jacket . Basing his book al- most entirely on secondary sources , Starr ( sociology ...
While differing in their judgments, they agree on one premise: Bell’s ideas deserve the kind of nuanced and serious attention that they finally receive in this book.
That is why the stakes of contemporary politics are so high. In this wide-ranging book, Starr examines how changes at the foundations of society become hard to reverse—yet sometimes are overturned.
This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues.
But Paul Starr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of America's leading intellectuals, claims that, properly understood, liberalism is a sturdy public philosophy, deeply rooted in our traditions, capable of making America a freer and ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Social Transformation of American Medicine reveals that President Clinton's plan for health care reform will work because it was devised by taking the best ideas from a variety of proposals that ...