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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Goldberger's War
Author: Alan M. Kraut
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374606323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
For fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Alan M. Kraut's Goldberg's War tells the story of one doctor's courageous journey to cure deadly diseases and epidemics. Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became a young recruit to the federal government's health service, and ended an American plague. He did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting on humans, and telling the South precisely what it didn't want to hear. Kraut shows how Dr. Goldberger's life became, quite literally, the stuff of legends. On the front lines of the major public-health battles of the early 20th-century, he fought the epidemics that were then routinely sweeping the nation--typhoid, yellow fever, and the measles. After successfully confronting (and often contracting) the infectious diseases of his day, in 1914 he was assigned the mystery of pellagra, a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries and was then afflicting tens of thousands of Americans every year, particularly in the emerging "New South." “Engrossing story of an American medical hero.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374606323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
For fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Alan M. Kraut's Goldberg's War tells the story of one doctor's courageous journey to cure deadly diseases and epidemics. Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became a young recruit to the federal government's health service, and ended an American plague. He did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting on humans, and telling the South precisely what it didn't want to hear. Kraut shows how Dr. Goldberger's life became, quite literally, the stuff of legends. On the front lines of the major public-health battles of the early 20th-century, he fought the epidemics that were then routinely sweeping the nation--typhoid, yellow fever, and the measles. After successfully confronting (and often contracting) the infectious diseases of his day, in 1914 he was assigned the mystery of pellagra, a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries and was then afflicting tens of thousands of Americans every year, particularly in the emerging "New South." “Engrossing story of an American medical hero.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Catalogue of United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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A History of Public Health
Author: George Rosen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421416018
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421416018
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Author: United States. Public Health Service
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909, Congressional
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
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