{"product_id":"goldbergers-war-alan-m-kraut-9780809016372","title":"Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel, \u003c\/i\u003e Alan M. Kraut's \u003ci\u003eGoldberg's War\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of one doctor's courageous journey to cure deadly diseases and epidemics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldberger's War\u003c\/i\u003e 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 what it didn't want to hear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKraut shows how Dr. Goldberger's life became, quite literally, the stuff of legends. On the front lines of the major public-health battles of the early 20th-century, he fought the epidemics that were then routinely sweeping the nation--typhoid, yellow fever, and the measles. After successfully confronting (and often contracting) the infectious diseases of his day, in 1914 he was assigned the mystery of pellagra, a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries and was then afflicting tens of thousands of Americans every year, particularly in the emerging New South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"Engrossing story of an American medical hero.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan M. Kraut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809016370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809016372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.76h x 5.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Alan M. Kraut","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120283513087,"sku":"9780809016372","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_123bdabc-50d6-43a0-b667-cdad09c20499.jpg?v=1687413494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/goldbergers-war-alan-m-kraut-9780809016372","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}