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Health and medicine on display : international expositions in the United States, 1876-1904 /

This work offers a book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Julie K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Public health > United States > Exhibitions > History.
Medicine > United States > Exhibitions > History.
Exhibitions > United States > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions > United States > History > 20th century.
Exhibitions.
Exhibitions as Topic
Public Health > history
Communicable Disease Control > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Military Medicine > history
Sanitation > history
exhibitions (events)
United States
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262258630
0262258633
0262026570
9780262026574
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Exposition infrastructure and exhibition display : an introduction
  • Judging the progress of sanitary science : the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
  • Preventing fear and panic : the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
  • Occupying a vast camp : the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition
  • Making a solemn protest : site and services at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
  • Presentations for the public eye : exhibits and exhibitors at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

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