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    Tegan 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.
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    Books: History - LC Classification (Downstairs)
    2021
    RA395.A3 K45 2021
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