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The Vitamin A Story - Lifting the Shadow of Death
R.D. Semba (editor)
2012
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This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem.
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Keywords
- Biochemistry
- Dietetics & nutrition
- history of medicine
- KUnlatched
- Medical
- Medical / Nutrition
- medicine
- Medicine & Public Health
- Medicine: General Issues
- Nutrition
- Ophthalmology
- Pediatrics
- Personal & public health
- Public Health
- Public health & preventive medicine
- Social medicine
- Vitamins
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DOI: 10.1159/isbn.978-3-318-02189Editions
