<P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 ." </P>

Paul starr's 3 premises in the social transformation of american medicine