The Flexner Report and contemporary critiques of medical professionalization with Ira Halpern

from American Campus Podcast · host Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

References and suggested readings:Ira Halpern. 2026. Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature. University of Massachusetts Press.Abraham Flexner. 1910. Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Regina Kunzel. 2024. In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life. University of Chicago Press.Ivan Illich. 2000. Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health. Marion Boyars Publishers.Ira Halpern’s faculty pageText the show here!Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf

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