Teeth
The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
New York : The New Press, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: x, 291 pages ; 22 cm
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.
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.
ISBN:
9781620971444
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH Ott | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.