A Doctor for Rural America: The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley
Barbara Barksdale Clowse
Abstract
Frances Sage Bradley (1862-1949) was one of the first female graduates of Cornell University Medical College (1899). She spent the next half century advancing the causes of public health and medical care for neglected women, infants, and children. In 1915 she closed her private practice and became a medical field agent for the US Children’s Bureau in isolated rural areas of ten states, including Appalachia. Enactment of the federal Maternity and Infant Protection Act of 1921 [Sheppard-Towner Act] opened further healthcare reform opportunities. A prolific writer, the doctor generated voluminous ... More
Keywords: Dr. Frances Sage Bradley, scientific medicine, public health, US Children’s Bureau, Progressive Era, World War I, Midwives, Maternity and Infant Protection Act of 1921, rural America, malnutrition
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813179773 |
| Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: January 2021 | DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813179773.001.0001 |
