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Author:

Hansen, Bert, 1944-

Title:

Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America / Bert Hansen.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 348 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 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--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Mass Media--history--United States.
Public Opinion--United States.
Massenmedien.
Öffentliche Meinung.
Innovation.
Medizin.
Volkskultur.
USA.

Notes:

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:

0813545765 (pbk.)
9780813545769 (pbk.)
0813545269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813545264 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)245507384

LCCN:

2008038707

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)