Making the American mouth : dentists and public health in the twentieth century / Alyssa Picard.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Picard, Alyssa.

Series:

• Critical issues in health and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Dental public health--United States--History--20th century.
• Dentistry--United States--History--20th century.
• History of Dentistry.
• Dentistry.
• History.
• Dental public health.
• United States.
• History, 20th Century.
• Public Health Dentistry--history.
• Social Identification.

Medical Subjects:

• History of Dentistry.
• United States.
• History, 20th Century.
• Public Health Dentistry--history.
• Social Identification.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]

Contents:

• American dental hygiene: "small flags attached to toothbrushes may be waved"
• Diet and the dental critique of American life: "we boast of our civilization, but we starve our children"
• "Like a sugar-coated pill": defining American dentistry abroad
• "This national stupidity": American dental economics in the 1930s and 1940s
• Behind the fluorine curtain
• The "satisfaction of dentistry" and the end of public health
• The look of the American mouth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780813545356
• 0813545358

OCLC:

243818523