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

Catalog Data

Author:
Picard, Alyssa  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 226 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2009
C2009
20th century
Notes:
NMAHMED copy 39088014656219 Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment.
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
Topic:
Dental public health--History  Search this
Dentistry--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_919283