Teeth : the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America / Mary Otto.

  • Otto, Mary
Date:
2016
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About this work

Description

Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.

Publication/Creation

New York : The New Press, 2016.

Physical description

x, 291 pages ; 22 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.

Contents

Beauty -- Suffering -- Emergencies -- The world beneath our noses -- The birth of American dentistry -- Separate lives -- Adventurers and auxiliaries -- The system -- Color lines -- Deamonte's world -- Riding into the epidemic -- Sons and daughters of Chapin Harris.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    W.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781620971444
  • 1620971445