Making the American mouth
Subtitle: dentists and public health in the twentieth century
By: Alyssa Picard.
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813545356
Subjects: Dental public health -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dentistry -- United States -- History -- 20th century; History of Dentistry -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Public Health Dentistry -- history -- United States; Social Identification -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American dental hygiene : "small flags attached to toothbrushes may be waved"; title: Diet and the dental critique of American life : "we boast of our civilization, but we starve our children"; title: "Like a sugar-coated pill" : defining American dentistry abroad; title: "This national stupidity" : American dental economics in the 1930s and 1940s; title: Behind the fluorine curtain; title: The "satisfaction of dentistry" and the end of public health; title: The look of the American mouth.