A new work on the history of vitamins and the brilliant men and women who discovered the existence and nature of these small molecules so vital to our health.
Frances Rachel Frankenburg , MD, is associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and adjunct clinical professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
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.
*SciTech Book News*
This well-researched, well-written, and highly informative volume
is an excellent reference for both health professionals and the
general public. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level
undergraduates and above; general readers.
*Choice*
…entertaining, easy to read, and written at a level understandable
by the educated layperson….most individuals interested in the early
history of vitamin nutrition will find the book to be interesting,
informative, and educational.
*JAMA*
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