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

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 348 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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Summary	Today, pharmaceutical companies, HMOs, insurance carriers, and the health care system in general may often puzzle and frustrate the general publicùand even physicians and researchers. By contrast, from the 1880s through the 1950s Americans enthusiastically embraced medicine and its practitioners. Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio offers a refreshing portrait of an era when the public excitedly anticipated medical progress and research breakthroughs. This unique study with 130 archival illustrations drawn from newspaper sketches, caricatures, comic books, Hollywood.
Subject	Medicine -- United States -- History.
	Medical innovations -- United States -- History.
	Medical illustration -- History.
	Health in mass media -- History.
	Popular culture -- United States -- History.
	History of Medicine.
	Public Opinion.
	Mass Media -- history.
	History, 20th Century.
	History, 19th Century.
	United States.
	Health in mass media -- United States -- History.
	Medicine -- History -- United States.
	History, 19th Century -- United States.
	History, 20th Century -- United States.
	Medical illustration -- United States -- History.
	MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
	MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
	MEDICAL.
	MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
	MEDICAL -- Essays.
	MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
	Health in mass media. (OCoLC)fst00953085
	Medical illustration. (OCoLC)fst01014168
	Medical innovations. (OCoLC)fst01014181
	Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Hansen, Bert, 1944- Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813545264 (DLC) 2008038707 (OCoLC)245507384
ISBN	9780813548593 (electronic bk.)
	0813548594 (electronic bk.)

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