Making the American Mouth : Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century

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Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Perfect white, straight teeth. Making the American Mouth is at once a history of U.S. 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 c...

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Autor principal: Picard, Alyssa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dentistry.
Dental public health.
Group identity.
MEDICAL > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
group identity.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Identite collective.
Sante dentaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
History, 20th Century
Public Health Dentistry > history
Social Identification
History of Dentistry
Dentistry > United States > History > 20th century.
Dental public health > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Perfect white, straight teeth. Making the American Mouth is at once a history of U.S. 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 addresses the ways dentists worked to expand that accessand improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, Making the American Mouth describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, midcentury social movements fo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (242 pages).
ISBN:9780813547114

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