Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
"Even as a long-time collector of medical prints, I learned a lot from this extraordinary book. Hansen's digging has turned up many discoveries, providing a new perspective on graphic art in popular culture. The images are wonderful, but this is not just a picture book; it's a great read as well, filled with remarkable insights." --William Helfand, author of several books on medical imagery and a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art"This book is analytical, nostalgic, sensitive, and just plain fun. Bert Hansen's meticulous privileging of the visual is a pathbreaking achievement for methods in the social and cultural history of medicine. You can be rewarded simply by looking at the wonderful pictures, but you will 'see' so much more in his lively prose."Jacalyn Duffin, Hannah Professor, Queen's University, and former president of the American Association for the History of Medicine"Even as a long-time collector of medical prints, I learned a lot from this extraordinary book. Hansen's digging has turned up many discoveries, providing a new perspective on graphic art in popular culture. The images are wonderful, but this is not just a picture book; it's a great read as well, filled with remarkable insights."William Helfand, author of five books on medical imagery and a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art"Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Poliois an authoritative, well-written account that will be a significant contribution not only to the history of American medicine, but to the history of American popular culture."Elizabeth Toon, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University  of Manchester