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Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America
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Title
Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America / Bert Hansen.
ISBN
9780813545264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
ix, 348 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 22, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Medicine in the public eye, then and now
Before there were medical breakthroughs : diseases and doctors in the pictorial press, 1860-1890
How medicine became hot news, 1885
Popular enthusiasm for laboratory discoveries, 1885-1895
Creating an institutional base for medical research, 1890-1920
The mass media make medical history popular
"And now, a word from our sponsor" : making medical history commercial
Popular medical history in children's comic books of the 1940s
Life looks at medicine : magazine photography and the American public
The meaning of an era.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History of Medicine - United States.
History, 19th Century - United States.
History, 20th Century - United States.
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