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was an exploration of medical care that had unprecedented scope and narrative power, garnering the
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is its capacity to portray a coherent image of the complex worlds of health care and health policy. It did so, in large part, by effectively casting the evolving stories of
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The work was very widely and favorably reviewed. Soon it was adopted in university classes in diverse disciplines such as history, medicine, economics, sociology, political science, and law.
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Paul Starr lectures at the
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The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
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