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Making the American mouth dentists and public health in the twentieth century
Author
Title
Making the American mouth [electronic resource] : dentists and public health in the twentieth century / Alyssa Picard.
ISBN
9780813547114
0813547113
9780813545356 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813545358 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 226 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Series
Critical issues in health and medicine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-216) and index.
Contents
American dental hygiene : "small flags attached to toothbrushes may be waved"
Diet and the dental critique of American life : "we boast of our civilization, but we starve our children"
"Like a sugar-coated pill" : defining American dentistry abroad
"This national stupidity" : American dental economics in the 1930s and 1940s
Behind the fluorine curtain
The "satisfaction of dentistry" and the end of public health
The look of the American mouth.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Social Identification - United States.
Public Health Dentistry - history - United States.
History, 20th Century - United States.
History of Dentistry - United States.
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