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Making the American mouth : dentists and public health in the twentieth century / Alyssa Picard.
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks RK52.2 .P53 2009
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- 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
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