Author: Medical Research Council (Great Britain)
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Category : Rickets
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Studies of Rickets in Vienna 1919-22
Author: Medical Research Council (Great Britain)
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Category : Rickets
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Publisher:
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Category : Rickets
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Experimental Rickets
Author: Poul Freudenthal
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Category : Rickets
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Rickets
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Vitamin A Story
Author: Richard D. Semba
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 3318021881
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Intriguing reading for specialists and the interested public alike This book shows how vitamin A deficiency -- before the vitamin was known to scientists -- affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author's presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 3318021881
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Intriguing reading for specialists and the interested public alike This book shows how vitamin A deficiency -- before the vitamin was known to scientists -- affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author's presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
The Prevention of Diphtheria
Author: James Graham Forbes
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Category : Diphtheria
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Category : Diphtheria
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Special Report Series (National Health Insurance Joint Committee (Great Britain).
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Report on the Nutrition of Miners and Their Families
Author: Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Committee upon quantitative problems in human nutrition
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Category : Miners
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Miners
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Guide to Current Official Statistics
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Our Troubles with Food
Author: Stephen Halliday
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
For millennia the normal, natural and pleasurable activity of eating has been surrounded by fear and anxiety. Religious traditions have long decreed what foods are right for their followers to eat, but secularisation and scientific progress have not made the situation easier. Our present obsession with health, obesity, ethics and science has seemingly developed from a society that is over-supplied with the necessities of life. For the first time, social historian Stephen Halliday looks at the history of our fascinating relationship with food, from Galen in the first century AD declaring that fruit was the worst kind of food to eat, to John Kellogg's belief that eating wholegrain cereals would prevent masturbation and bring people closer to God. Through modern fears and food scares such as mad cow disease to our current fascination with superfoods, 'friendly' bacteria and organic farming, Our Troubles with Food is a thorough analysis of our changing attitudes towards food and a reminder that we are not so very different from our forbears after all.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
For millennia the normal, natural and pleasurable activity of eating has been surrounded by fear and anxiety. Religious traditions have long decreed what foods are right for their followers to eat, but secularisation and scientific progress have not made the situation easier. Our present obsession with health, obesity, ethics and science has seemingly developed from a society that is over-supplied with the necessities of life. For the first time, social historian Stephen Halliday looks at the history of our fascinating relationship with food, from Galen in the first century AD declaring that fruit was the worst kind of food to eat, to John Kellogg's belief that eating wholegrain cereals would prevent masturbation and bring people closer to God. Through modern fears and food scares such as mad cow disease to our current fascination with superfoods, 'friendly' bacteria and organic farming, Our Troubles with Food is a thorough analysis of our changing attitudes towards food and a reminder that we are not so very different from our forbears after all.
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1740
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1740
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library)
Author: Army Medical Library (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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