Dr. Joseph Goldberger & the War on Pellagra

Résumé du livre

Goldberger, a physician in the U.S. government's Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health, discovered the cause of pellagra and stepped on a number of medical toes when his research experiments showed that diet and not germs (the currently held medical theory) caused the disease. He also stepped on Southern pride when he condemned the sharecropper systems as being a significant factor in the cause of pellagra.