Winner of the 2010 Ray and Pat Browne Award given by the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association “for the best single-author book published in 2009.”

Rated "Outstanding" and selected for the "2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses for Public and Secondary School Libraries" by the American Library Association. Presentation can be viewed online at 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses - C-SPAN Video Library.

Reviewed in JAMA of 12/9/09. See the “reviews” link below for an excerpt.

Reviewed in the New York Times on 8/25/09

Reviewed by David Potash on his blog, "The Digital Quad: Looking In and Looking Out."

5 minute interview on CBC radio available as podcast. Scoll down in archive to 11/13/09 for Rusted Lecture at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.

30 minute interview for the radio show “Inquiry” with Mark Lynch on WICN (Worcester, MA). Among podcasts look under Inquiry.

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“Celebrating July 6” is an opinion piece by Bert Hansen, posted on a Medical Humanities blog at NYU.  Click here and look for July 6 entry.

The author gratefully acknowledges that research for this book was supported in part by the PSC-CUNY Awards Program of the City University of New York.

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes by Bert Hansen is published by Rutgers University Press.

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