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A Doctor for Rural America: The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley (Hardcover)

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

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About the Author


Barbara Barksdale Clowse is a former professor of history at both UNC Greensboro and North Carolina A&T State. She is the author of Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and National Defense Education Act of 1958, Ralph McGill: A Biography, and Women, Decision Making, and the Future. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780813179773
ISBN-10: 0813179777
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication Date: October 15th, 2020
Pages: 264
Language: English