Great moments: Authenticity, ideology, and the telling of medical "history"

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 502-521

  Metzl, Jonathan M ^a,b   Howell, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b and the Arts ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ART; ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ADVERTISING; DRUG INDUSTRY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICINE IN ART; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548146058     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2007.0015     Document Type: Review

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