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Autore |
Picard Alyssa |
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Titolo |
Making the American mouth [[electronic resource] ] : dentists and public health in the twentieth century / / Alyssa Picard |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-09421-1 |
9786612094217 |
0-8135-4711-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dental public health - United States - History - 20th century |
Dentistry - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-216) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. American Dental Hygiene: “Small Flags Attached to Toothbrushes May Be Waved” -- Chapter 2. Diet and the Dental Critique of American Life: “We Boast of Our Civilization, But We Starve Our Children” -- Chapter 3. “Like a Sugar-Coated Pill”: Defining American Dentistry Abroad -- Chapter 4. “This National Stupidity”: American Dental Economics in the 1930's and 1940's -- Chapter 5. Behind the Fluorine Curtain -- Chapter 6. The “Satisfaction of Dentistry” and the End of Public Health -- Chapter 7. The Look of the American Mouth -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Brilliantly white, straight teeth? Making the American Mouth is at once a history of United States dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and the ways dentists worked to expand that access--and improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, this work describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, mid-century social movements for racial and gender equity, and |
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