Paul Starr

Paul Elliot Starr (born May 12, 1949) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.

In 1993, Starr was the senior advisor for President Bill Clinton's proposed health care reform plan.

[2] Furthermore, he has written books relating to how policies affect health care, with works such as The Social Transformation of American Medicine, The Logic of Health Care Reform, and Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health-Care Reform.

According to Keith Wailoo et al. Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine was an exploration of medical care that had unprecedented scope and narrative power, garnering the Bancroft Prize for American History, extensive praise from health care professionals, and the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

Soon it was adopted in university classes in diverse disciplines such as history, medicine, economics, sociology, political science, and law.