History of the American Medical Association

Fishbein, Morris

doi:10.1001/jama.1947.62880070001009

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“…As early as 1835, Paul Eve and the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia called for a medical convention to consider improvements in medical education. 2,39 There was no response from the Northern schools. A convention was held in Columbus in 1838, but no practical changes followed.…”

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Medical Training in the United States Prior to the Civil War*

Slawson¹

2012

J Evid Based Complementary Altern Med

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Early medical school development in the United States was considerably more robust than is usually appreciated. Most histories include only that portion of medicine known as regular or allopathic medicine. To fully understand developments in the country, it is necessary to include the various medical sects that developed in the country in the early 19th century. It is also important to realize that the impetus for medical school development came not from established academic institutions but from the medical community itself. Medical schools in the United States developed at a time and place that hospitals, as we know them, did not exist. The melding together of the preceptorship (apprenticeship), didactic lectures, demonstrations, and clinical/hospital experience evolved slowly. The move from heroic medicine occurred somewhat reluctantly as in Europe. In the United States, in contrast to the situation in Europe, the majority of medical practitioners were called “doctor.” The development of medicine and medical education is usually discussed as a progression of knowledge. It has been fashionable to ignore the development of the various medical sects. Even within regular medicine, no uniformity of thought existed by this time. The American Medical Association was born of this. Change within a segment of society always reflects, and is reflected by, change in society at large. The rapid increases in geographic area and the huge population growth must be understood. Times changed as the character of the population changed. Perception of gender and freedom were important aspects of this change. A number of prominent African American physicians also emerged.

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“…44 The medical faculty from Harvard (including Holmes) was opposed to this and published a statement in 1849. 45,46 They stated that what was needed was more study by the student and more private instruction including patients. They felt that there was no need for more didactic lectures.…”

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Medical Training in the United States Prior to the Civil War*

Slawson¹

2012

J Evid Based Complementary Altern Med

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“…Wood was president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for 34 years and the ninth President of the American Medical Association in 1855. 22,23…”

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Quest for Professionalism: a biography of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826–31)

Shultz¹

2011

J Med Biogr

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This is the biography of a deceased medical journal, the North American Medical and Surgical Journal, born in 1826 in Philadelphia. It was a publication of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Kappa Lambda Society. In the prospectus of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal the promoters observed that a well-conducted journal would achieve the object of elevating the medical profession to its legitimate rank which up to that time had been the recipient of low public opinion. The Journal hoped to inculcate ‘a higher standard of excellence not merely in the professional or ministrative but also in the ethical relations and duties of physicians’. After several successful and productive years it passed into history in October 1831, the victim of financial difficulty.

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“…179 Emphasizing the relationship between prohibition regulation and other regulatory legislation, the House of Delegates of the AMA endorsed a proposal supporting the right to prescribe alcohol immediately before endorsing another one that condemned the Sheppard-Towner Act. 180 The press also linked the two measures. 181 For example, the St. Joseph, Missouri, Gazette, strongly endorsing the successive AMA measures favoring alcohol prescriptions and opposing Sheppard-Towner, argued that the two pieces of legislation were "remarkable when we consider the fact that the medical profession is closer in touch and ought to know more about both matters than any other class of men in the entire country."…”

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"Physicians are not Bootleggers": The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement

Appel¹

2008

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This essay seeks to chronicle the effort of physicians to secure the right to prescribe beer, liquor, and other alcoholic beverages to their patients for medicinal uses during the Prohibition era. A review of the medical literature and popular press from the period 1920-26 reveals that the physicians who lobbied for the right to prescribe alcohol and, ultimately, took their claim to the United States Supreme Court, were not uniformly antiprohibitionists attempting to circumvent the Eighteenth Amendment. Instead, this coalition of physician activists, led by John P. Davin and Samuel W. Lambert, included both supporters and opponents of prohibition. Their attitudes on the therapeutic value of beer and liquor also varied widely. Yet what united these men and women-and what defined their movement-was opposition to state interference with the practice of medicine and an increasing concern with the federal government's role in the regulation of their profession. The defeat of their efforts, presaging the passage of the Sheppard Towner Act in 1921 and the extension of veterans' health benefits in 1924, marked an important step in the development of antagonism between the medical community and the federal government during the mid-twentieth century.

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History of the American Medical Association

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Medical Training in the United States Prior to the Civil War*

Medical Training in the United States Prior to the Civil War*

Quest for Professionalism: a biography of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826–31)

"Physicians are not Bootleggers": The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement

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