Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio
Subtitle: a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America
By: Bert Hansen.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813545264
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicine in the public eye, then and now; title: Before there were medical breakthroughs : diseases and doctors in the pictorial press, 1860-1890; title: How medicine became hot news, 1885; title: Popular enthusiasm for laboratory discoveries, 1885-1895; title: Creating an institutional base for medical research, 1890-1920; title: The mass media make medical history popular; title: "And now, a word from our sponsor" : making medical history commercial; title: Popular medical history in children's comic books of the 1940s; title: Life looks at medicine : magazine photography and the American public; title: The meaning of an era.