The Social Transformation of American Medicine — Why Fragmentation Preserves Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Paul Starr
This episode explores The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr as a systems-level analysis of how American medicine transformed professional authority into institutional and economic power.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated policy failures, the episode shows why physician sovereignty, hospital-centered care, fragmented insurance, and resistance to countervailing power became durable features of the American healthcare system.
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