Answer one (1) of the questions below in a short 1- to 2-page essay.  The goal of this essay assignment is to develop your abilities to analyze secondary sources.  Carefully read and analyze the assigned secondary source and address the questions that follow. Make sure your essay has a clear introduction and thesis statement.  Your answer must include specific examples from the secondary sources in support of your thesis statement.

Please use quotation marks and in text citations for all direct quotes.

  1. Historian Ronald Numbers analyzes how the American Medical Association (AMA) consolidated authority over the medical profession in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Identify and discuss two of the ways in which the (AMA) suppressed rivals and raised the standards of medicine in the United States.