Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio : a history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America /

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. Pi...

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Main Author: Hansen, Bert, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009
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