Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America / Bert Hansen.
| Author/creator |
Hansen, Bert, 1944- |
| Other author/creator | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009. |
| Description | ix, 348 pages : illustrations (some color). |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-328) and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008038707 |
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