Abstract
THE MUCKRAKING DECADE OF ABOUT 1902-12 COINCIDED WITH THE MOST vigorous part of a period of transition in American medicine. It is not surprising that one of the crusading journalists of that period, Samuel Hopkins Adams, made his reputation as a reformer by focusing his muckraker's passion for social improvement upon the medical scene. In this early stage of his long, varied and immensely prolific literary career, Adams (1871-1958), though he wrote occasional hard-hitting expos6s of such things as workers' housing conditions in Pittsburgh, the advertising industry and the California lemon monopoly, concentrated his writer's spotlight on the conditions of public health in the United States. Although the muckraking school, so-called, virtually faded out by the outbreak of World War I, Adams maintained his strong interest in medicine and public health for another decade. Long before 1925, however, his medical muckraking changed into a medical journalism more suited to the later age.'
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