2025/2026
1. Opening of 5. Demand for ther-
20th Century
2. Founding of
American
Medical
Association
(AMA)
3. American
Medical
Association
(AMA)
4. Advances
making
practice of
med more
successful in
treating health
problems
,·Drs were solo practitioners care was a minor part of economy
·Hospitals were single, 1847
independent entities, mostly
non-profit
·Long-term care for the elderly ·Established standards for preliminary medical education for the degree of
was largely home-based MD
·Pharmaceuticals & medical ·Code of Medical Ethics
device manufacturing was a
small business ·Recommended use of anesthetic agents for surgery/obstetrics
· ·Noted dangers of secret remedies (snake oil) & patent medicines
H ·Recommended state govs register births, marriages, & deaths
e ·Improvements in surgery made during Civil War (toilets
downstream from Army's campsite)
a
l ·Application to medicine advances in bacteriology by scientists such
as Louis Pasteur (ability to control infections - leading cause of
t death at the time)
h ·Provided start for some of largest names in modern pharma industry:
Wyeth,
apeutics fueled by Pfizer, Squibb
Civil War
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6. Found of 1861 (19th century)
U.S. Nursing
Corps
(profes-
sional
nursing) ·Created ambulance-to-ER system we know today
7. Development ·Estab. Hierarchy of tx stations to type of hospital facilities
of Ambulance
Corps during
·American Hospital Association (AHA)
Civil War
8. Association of
Hospital
Superin-
tendents
became
9. Founding of Asso-
1899 ciation of
Hospital
Superintendents
10. Adoption of pri- vate sectors were involved in
the Bertillon or
Inter- national 13. Access to health care for members of
List of Causes military, vets,
of Death
11. Bertillon or
Inter- national
List of Causes
of Death
12. Both public &
, 1900 n health care infrastructure 1811
·Predecessor of International
Classification of Diseases (ICD)
·Brought some standards &
criteria in the study of diseases
·Providing health care coverage
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