Teeth : the story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America / Mary Otto.
- Otto, Mary
- Date:
- 2016
- Books
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
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineW.6Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781620971444
- 1620971445