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. Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio offers a refreshing portrait of an era when the public excitedly anticipated medical progress and research breakthroughs.
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. Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio offers a refreshing portrait of an era when the public excitedly anticipated medical progress and research breakthroughs.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bert Hansen, a professor of history at Baruch College, has published a book on medieval science and many articles on the history of modern medicine and public health.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1. The Setting Medicine in the Public Eye, Then and Now Before There Were Medical Breakthroughs Part 2. A New Regime of Medical Progress How Medicine Became Hot News, 1885 Popular Enthusiasm for Laboratory Discoveries, 1885-1895 Creating an Institutional Base for Medical Research,1890-1920 Part 3. Medical History for the Public, 1925-1950 The Mass Media Make Medical History Popular "And now, a word from our sponsor" Popular Medical History in Children's Comic Books of the 1940s Part 4. The Modern Imagery of Medical Progress Life Looks at Medicine The Meaning of an Era Appendix Notes Index
Part 1. The Setting Medicine in the Public Eye, Then and Now Before There Were Medical Breakthroughs Part 2. A New Regime of Medical Progress How Medicine Became Hot News, 1885 Popular Enthusiasm for Laboratory Discoveries, 1885-1895 Creating an Institutional Base for Medical Research,1890-1920 Part 3. Medical History for the Public, 1925-1950 The Mass Media Make Medical History Popular "And now, a word from our sponsor" Popular Medical History in Children's Comic Books of the 1940s Part 4. The Modern Imagery of Medical Progress Life Looks at Medicine The Meaning of an Era Appendix Notes Index
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