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.
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