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- BookTegan Kehoe.Summary: "This full-color book tells the story of American healthcare history through color photographs of real objects from museums and both famous and little-known medical discoveries"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Unwashed groins and child labor: cancer in the early industrial age
George Washington's toothbrush
The age of the vaccine
No wrong way to eat
A pioneering operation
Healing by a higher power
Morton's ether inhaler and the advent of anesthesia
Bitters and irregulars: alternative healing in the nineteenth century
Blood shed after the battle: bleeding cups
Under the surgeon's tent: the physician in the Civil War
"Inflammatory mischief" meets antiseptic techniques
Answering the milk question
Skull shape and scientific racism
"Health and comfort of body, with grace and beauty of form"
East meets West in the medicine cabinet: a Chinese doctor in America
The "cure" that wasn't
Cocaine the medicine and the drug
Don Pedrito, a legendary healer
A wooden leg in a mechanized world
A community doctor's legacy
Carville, the "Louisiana leper home"
The professional nurse only
The pandemic of the century: the 1918 flu
The Bubonic plague meets bacteriology
Safe, simple, sure? The power of x-rays
"Are you playing the health game?"
The problem with "good" genes
Machinery and machinations
Diabetes: a fatal disease becomes chronic
The tools of a contested trade: a midwife's kit
Sipping on the sunshine vitamin
Preemie care beyond the World's Fair
The penicillin revolution
Blood transfusion comes of age
Insuring and ensuring health
Nursing at war
The science and politics of inhaling dust
Health uplifted, health upended
DDT: the double-edged sword
The iron lung and the polio epidemics
Two eras of change in pharmacy
More than a metaphor: the straitjacket
Changing ways of looking at the gut
The pill's new era of choice (for some)
Smoking under scrutiny
Ed Roberts and the independent living movement
Bypassing the heart
False hopelessness or false hope: the early years of AIDS
September 11 and emergency response
Saving lives amid the opioid crisis.