Megan Curran

There is fertile ground for debate here among public health professionals, medical ethicists, those involved in current health-care issues, and historians.

This not only makes for fine survey material for undergraduate mass media or cultural history classes but is recommended for all serious readers in media history and the history of cultural opinion and all concerned with placing today's concerns over print vs. digital in their historical context.

History students could make good use of the book as a reference tool. Both lay and academic readers who commit to the book's entirety, however, would be rewarded with the feeling of truly understanding the era, benefiting from both broad strokes and fine details.