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Author Brown, Julie K.

Title Health and medicine on display : international expositions in the United States, 1876-1904 / Julie K. Brown
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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
Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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)
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Exhibitions
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262258630
0262258633
0262026570
9780262026574