Health and Medicine on Display - International Expositions in the United States, 1876-1904

Zusammenfassung How international expositions! through their exhibits and infrastructures! attempted to increase public awareness of advances in health and medicine.

About the author

Julie K. Brown, an independent scholar, is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Medicine, Science, and Society at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. She is the author of Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions, and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900 and Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition.

Product details

• Authors: Julie K Brown, Julie K. Brown, Julie K. (Research Associate Brown
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2009
• EAN: 9780262026574
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02657-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Health and Medicine on Display; The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General