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Bert Hansen - Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America - 9780813545769 - V9780813545769
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Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America

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Description for Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America Paperback. .
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 films, and LIFE magazine photography analyzes the relationship between mass media images and popular attitudes. Bert Hansen considers the impact these representations ... Read more


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813545769
SKU
V9780813545769
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Bert Hansen
Bert Hansen, a professor of history at Baruch College, has published a book on medieval science and many articles on the history of modern medicine and public health.

Reviews for Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
"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 ... Read more

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