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Making the American mouth : dentists and public health in the twentieth century / Alyssa Picard.

Author/creator Picard, Alyssa
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionxii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine. ^A886083
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-216) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008035426
ISBN9780813545356 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813545358 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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