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

Making the American Mouth : : Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century / / Alyssa Picard.

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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 earl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Picard, Alyssa,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p.) :; 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 1930s and 1940s
  • 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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