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The picture of health : images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection / commentaries by William H. Helfand ; essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N8223 .H44 1991
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection N8223 .H44 1991
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University Archives UPP98 G619 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helfand, William H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helfand, William H.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Medicine and art--Exhibitions.
- Medicine and art.
- Pharmacy in art--Exhibitions.
- Pharmacy in art.
- Art--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Helfand, William H--Art collections--Exhibitions.
- Art--Private collections--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art--Exhibitions.
- Medicine in art--Exhibitions.
- Medicine in art.
- Art--Private collections.
- Art museums.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art : Distributed by the University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- The Picture of Health presents posters, caricatures, and a printed ephemera that document the public perception of the medical and pharmaceutical professions from the eighteenth century to the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 142) and index.
- "This exhibition and catalogue are made possible by a grant from Merck & Co., Inc., in honor of its centennial."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Merck & Co., 1991.
- ISBN:
- 081227962X
- 0876330871
- OCLC:
- 23869192
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