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Goldberger's War : The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader
Goldberger's War The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader
Author: Alan M. Kraut
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809016372
ISBN-10: 0809016370
Publication Date: 9/1/2004
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Definitely an interesting story, but it can get awfully dry and bogged down at times. The scientific aspect was the most interesting to me, with the long (and somewhat dull) descriptions of the tiniest minutiae of Goldberger's life holding up the real interest of the book - pellagra (a nutritional disease) and those who had it.


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