Doctor for Rural America
Doctor for Rural America Dr. 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. Frances Sage…
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Doctor for Rural America
Dr. 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. Frances Sage Bradley (1862--1949) was a mediating force between the urban world of her own education and experience, and that of rural Americans.
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 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.