Health on display
Subtitle: international expositions in the United States, 1876-1904
By: Julie K. Brown.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780262026574
Subjects: Public health -- United States -- History -- Exhibitions; Medicine -- United States -- History -- Exhibitions; Exhibitions -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Exhibitions -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Exhibits as Topic -- United States; Public Health -- history -- United States; Communicable Disease Control -- history -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Military Medicine -- history -- United States; Sanitation -- history -- United States
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exposition infrastructure and exhibition display : an introduction; title: Judging the progress of sanitary science : the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition; title: Preventing fear and panic : the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition; title: Occupying a vast camp : the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition; title: Making a solemn protest : site and services at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; title: Presentations for the public eye : on display at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.