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Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America
- Title
- Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America / Bert Hansen.
- Author
- Hansen, Bert, 1944-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | R151 .H25 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 348 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Subject
- Medicine > United States > History
- Medical innovations > United States > History
- Medical illustration > United States > History
- Health in mass media > United States > History
- Popular culture > United States > History
- History of Medicine
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- Mass Media > history
- Public Opinion
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-328) 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.
- ISBN
- 9780813545264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813545269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813545769 (pbk.)
- 0813545765 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008038707
- OCLC
- ocn245507384
- 245507384
- SCSB-5479259
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries