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How Medical Progress Has Hastened The Passing Of The Side Show
Eagle has a ready answer for the dwindling supply of human abnormalities. Many misshapen or deformed persons, he explains, now have their defects repaired or obliterated by surgery....
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Title: How Medical Progress Has Hastened The Passing Of The Side Show
Creator: John Lentz (author)
Date: March 1964
Format: Article
Publication: Today's Health
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.48-51
Keywords: Circus; Diagnoses & Diseases; Doctors; Economics; Employment; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Freak Show; Labor; Media; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Phineas T. Barnum; Physical Disability; Popular Culture; Social Welfare & Communities; Surgery; The Arts
Topics: Mass Media, Culture & The Arts; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy