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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hansen, Bert, 1944-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Public Opinion > United States. Mass Media > history > United States. History, 20th Century > United States. History, 19th Century > United States. History of Medicine > United States. Popular culture > United States > History. Health in mass media > United States > History. Medical illustration > United States > History. Medical innovations > United States > History. Medicine > United States > History. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.