Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio [electronic resource] : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America / Bert Hansen
- Author
- Hansen, Bert, 1944-
- Published
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
- Physical Description
- ix, 348 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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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.
- Subject(s)
- 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—United States
- History, 19th Century—United States
- History, 20th Century—United States
- Mass Media—history—United States
- Public Opinion—United States
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780813545264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813545269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813545769 (pbk.)
0813545765 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-328) and index.
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