Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era: The Move Toward Monopoly

Abstract

The so-called Progressive era started in approximately 1900 and went through the first World War. Famous for muckraking, it was also the era of profound changes in the social, economic, and cultural life. Burrows shows how, during this period, organized medicine passed from political obscurity to public prominence in less than a decade and became a force for political reform. The Kentucky physician Joseph N. McCormick welded state societies into a coherent and powerful organization and worked hard to place the organization behind a program of improved public health, better medical education, and favorable public relations. In this book there are impressive chapters on reform in medical education and the role that the American Medical Association played therein, especially through its Council on Education. The great publicity that attended Simon Flexner and his famous Report of 1910 has obscured the part played by the AMA. Burrows tells the story well

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