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

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

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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Main Author: Picard, Alyssa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Dental public health > United States > History > 20th century.
Dentistry > United States > History > 20th century.
Group identity.
group identity.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > History.
Group identity
Dental public health
Dentistry
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • IndexAbout the Author.

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