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Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. A pressing concern in contemporary health policy is whether the medical profession’s mandate to take care of Beginning in and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr traces the line of professional sovereignty in medicine, the political struggles over healthcare, and the She argues that Starr's work is This article is only available in the PDF format. Nancy Tomes compares and contrasts two books by Paul Starr and George Rosen on the history and sociology of American medicine. This comprehensive, literate, and provocative The book works its way through the twentieth century from SCA's discovery (to Western medicine) in Chicago in the first ade, through the development of tests for the disease, to Linus Pauling's mid-century announcement of SCA as a molecular disease, and to the recent attempts to find a cure and a treatment for the pain associated with SCA. look The resilience of the medical profession as it adapts and transforms in response to three recent challenges to the profession that exemplify the tension between self-interest and collective altruism to act in the best interest of patients are shown.