History of Medicine
The following are a series of lectures about the history of medicine in America
History of Medicine
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Lecture Fourteen: Where are We Now?
The first half of American Medical History ends at the Flexner Report, which entirely morphed American Healthcare into a monolithic corporate entity under the complete control of the AMA. Every aspect of healthcare transformed, from educa...
Lecture Thirteen: The Flexner Report and African American Physicians
Two pages of the Flexner Report condemned African American medial providers, hospitals, and patients to decades of struggle. Relying on the AMA's medical-racial script, and playing into the atmosphere of Progressive eugenics, Flexner's ch...
Lecture Twelve: The Flexner Report
Once the AMA and William Welch orchestrated an alliance of Progressive reformers, corporate interests, and state medical licensing agencies, it was time to sanctify the cogs of a new medical system. That is what the Flexner Report is all ...
Lecture Eleven: The Battle of the Williams, Welch vs. Osler
Two of American medicine's pioneers, and co-founders of Johns Hopkins Medical School, represented a fork in the road. William Osler, whose scientific humanism pushed back against a healthcare system teetering between commercialism and qua...