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...HISTORY alternately feeds and eats off perspective. Historians spend their lives putting events into perspective and giving the proper perspective to past events. They are recording society and the basis of their perspective is that society. The events of 1959 did not intrude upon Eleanor Flexner's recording of a century, but the events of the sixties and seventies...
...Flexner's Century of Struggle, which depicted the women's rights movement from 1820 to 1920, is a sterling example of a work which was relatively unknown, although respected in small circles, and which has suddenly shot into vogue. First published in 1959, the work immediately became the textbook of the suffrage movement for women's history scholars. There was no radical feminism, as it is known today, to support or influence the writing of the book...
...evolution of the presidency, traced by James Thomas Flexner, author of a definitive biography of George Washington...
...Fourth Era. American medicine has undergone three major cycles since Abraham Flexner published his comprehensive critical report on medical education in 1910. The first period emphasized the general practitioner, who had broad-but rarely deep-training in the science and clinical techniques of his day. This gave way in the 1940s to a trend toward specialization as doctors realized that no physician could possibly be competent in all areas of medicine. During the post-Sputnik '50s and '60s, scientific research was assigned high priority and prestige, along with generous financing. The fourth era, if the most reform-minded...
...national health-insurance plan, the Carnegie Commission views the current problem as "a mere ripple in comparison with mounting waves of problems to be faced when the financial barriers to health care are lowered." To meet a demand for ever more doctors, it urges medical schools to update the Flexner plan and to adopt a program that it says could fill the physician gap by 1980. Among its recommendations...