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Vitamin Discoveries and Disasters - 9780313354755

Un libro in lingua di Frankenburg Frances Rachel edito da Greenwood Pub Group, 2009

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It wasn't until the 20th century that researchers generally accepted that vitamin deficiencies were the root cause of a number of major diseases. In this work, Frankenburg (psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Harvard Medical School) describes the emergence of nutritional science. Each chapter focuses on a specific vitamin, describing the researchers, the research, and the historic and scientific contexts for its discovery, and chronicling the ongoing conflict between physicians who saw illness as caused by organisms and those who saw illness as a result of dietary deficiency. The book is illustrated with b&w historical photos and art. For those interested in components of nutrition as well as the history of the field, appendices describe some features of the vitamins in more detail. Simple glossary definitions are provided for many scientific and medical terms. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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