Sarah Hackett Stevenson: The first female member of the American Medical Association. In 1880, Sarah Stevenson and Lucy Flowers founded the Illinois Training School for Nurses. She published The Physiology of Women, also in 1880.
Progressive Era Medical Reforms Timeline
In 1883, American Medical Association(AMA) began publishing the Journal of the American Medical Association which became the main publication venue for medical studies and the place to go to learn, teach, and display medical science. AMA also provided grants for fostering medical research and established council to promote public health education.
Board of Health Because the poor living condition of rural homes, people's health was a great challenge Georgia facing during Progressive Era. To solve this problem, Georgia created a new state Board of Health in 1903. The health board soon began an anti-rabies project and to start publicizing information about infectious and contagious diseases.
Abraham Flexner was an American educator, his Flexner Report published in 1910 reformed medical education in the United States. The report led to the closing of second-rate medical schools and to sweeping changes in medical curricula and teaching methods.
Andrew Carnegie, as one of the wealthiest 19th century U.S. businessmen, he called for philanthropic giving to colleges, hospitals, medical research, libraries, ,museums, religion and social betterment.
Luther Gulick, a leader of the physical education, and championed many health reforms of the Progressive era's Clean Living Movement. These included eugenics, diet and nutrition, personal hygiene, tuberculosis, and public health causes. Gulick became a spokesperson to increased national concern for public health, personal hygiene, passage of pure-food laws.
Birth Control The word coined by Margaret Sanger. Sanger started her campaign to educate women about sex in 1912. And through the time she was working as a nurse, she treated a number of women who tried to terminate their pregnancies. Sanger fought to make birth control information and contraceptives available."Magic pill"
Health Insurance Early in the 20th century, industrial America faced the “problem of sickness”: when working people missed work owing to ill health, they also lost their wages. In 1915, progressive reformers proposed a system of compulsory health insurance to protect workers against both wage loss and medical costs during sickness.
Richard Cabot was one of the American's best known physician. He research furthered indication of illnesses and advanced clinical hematology. His book A Layman's Handbook of Medicine published in 1923.
Maud Cannon was responsible for developing the first social work department in a hospital in the United States. She worked as a nurse, a social worker, convinced that medical practice could not be effective without examining the link between illness and the social conditions of the patient.