The Social Transformation of American Medical Education

Applying Weber's theorizing on action and stratification, this study examines whether the early 20th-century extinction of half of the medical schools in the United States resulted from actions intended to serve class, status, and party interests by achieving social closure. Analyses reveal closure intentions in the school ratings assigned by the American Medical Association, although not in the recommendations in the 1910 Carnegie-sponsored Flexner report. In contrast to claims that schools failed largely because of economic exigencies, analyses indicate that failures were influenced by the AMA's and Flexner's assessments, as well as by state regulatory regimes and school characteristics

Class (philosophy) · Closure (psychology) · Epistemology · Political science · Social change · Social class · Social transformation · Sociology · Transformation (genetics) · Academic Freedom and Politics · American History and Culture · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Philosophy

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