Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809016370 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. He did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting on humans, and telling the South precisely what it didn't want to hear.
Very quick service The quality of the book is excellent. I received my order within 2-3 days. Thank you!. A Southern Reader said A Fine Bio of a True American Hero. Joseph Goldberger is a true American hero. He was a US PHS officer who devoted his life to combating various infectious and communicable diseases. However, his biggest triumph was in determining that pellagra, a disease you never hear of any more but in the 19th and early "A Fine Bio of a True American Hero" according to A Southern Reader. Joseph Goldberger is a true American hero. He was a US PHS officer who devoted his life to combating various infectious and communicable diseases. However, his biggest triumph was in determining that pellagra, a disease you never hear of any more but in the 19th and early 20th century took the l. 0th century took the l. A. Wozniak said A very good read.. The book is well written, very interesting, and easy for a lay person to understand. If you like to read medical history books and don't remember or know about the achievements of Joseph Goldberger, then you should read this book. The book would be a good Christmas or birthday present.
Until Joseph Goldberger proved otherwise in the early 20th century, the illness, a scourge of the South, was believed to be an infectious disease. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. This story follows an immigrant's rise in America, but in Kraut's hands, it is more than just a biography; it is also a history of science. Kraut shows how Goldberger worked to push for the eradication of the disease-even using radical methods, such as injecting forms of the disease into himself, his wife and other subjects. (Later researchers showed that pellagra resulted from a lack of niacin.) Using both primary and secondary documents, Kraut, a professor of his