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