A doctor for rural America : the reforms of Frances Sage Bradley / Barbara Barksdale Clowse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clowse, Barbara Barksdale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bradley, Frances Sage, 1862-1949--Health.

Bradley, Frances Sage.

Health services accessibility--United States.

Health services accessibility.

Equality--Health aspects.

Medical policy--Social aspects.

Medical policy.

United States.

Medical policy--Social aspects--Biography.

Child health services--United States.

Child health services.

Equality--Health aspects--Biography.

Equality.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Biography.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Health.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]

Summary:

"Dr. Frances Sage Bradley (1862-1949) was a mediating force between the urban world of her own education and experience, and that of rural Americans. As a widow with four young children, Bradley trained as a doctor and became one of the first women to graduate from Cornell University Medical School. During the height of the Progressive Era, she left her private practice to do significant field work for the newly-created Children's Bureau, working mainly in the Appalachian South. In this timely biography, Barbara Barksdale Clowse details the story of this physician, reformer, and writer, and her efforts to extend access to healthcare to rural communities. Clowse describes Bradley's important innovations in the field of public health, including physical exams or "conferences" for children and infants which simultaneously educated parents and local medical practitioners, and her advocacy for improved nutrition and modern medicine in rural areas. Finally, Clowse illustrates how Bradley's work regarding maternal mortality and morbidity in America was instrumental in demonstrating the need for what became the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, also known as the Maternity and Infancy Protection Act. A century has passed since Bradley lived out her commitment to social justice in healthcare, yet many of the issues that she faced still plague the United States today. A Doctor for Rural America presents a balanced portrait of an overlooked pioneer and her work to establish healthcare as an obligation that the government owed to its citizens"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. 1862-1896: Outliving Loss

2. 1896-1900: Metamorphosis

3. 1900-1915: "A Damn Yankee Down in Dixie"

4. 1916: "Oh, I Am So Glad to Have Had This Work!"

5. 1917-1918: Shadows of War

6. 1918-1919: Deadly Interval

7. 1919-1921: Traveling aboard "The Special"

8. 1921-1922: Denouement

9. 1922-1923: Arkansas Bureaucrat

10. 1923-1925: A Fresh Start

11. 1925-1928: Reform Blighted

12. 1928-1949: Reckoning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813179773

0813179777

OCLC:

1151815745