Vitamania : vitamins in American culture /
Apple, Rima D. 1944-
Vitamania : vitamins in American culture / Rima D. Apple. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations - Health and medicine in American society . - Health and medicine in American society. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index.
Introduction: "Perhaps your diet is too modern": the discovery of avitaminosis -- "They need it now": popular science and advertising in the interwar period -- "To protect the interest of the public": vitamins, marketing, and research -- "Superior knowledge": pharmacists, grocers, physicians, and Linus Pauling -- Miles one-a-day: the history of a vitamin dynasty -- Acnotabs: scientific evidence in the marketplace -- "Millions of consumers are being misled": the Food and Drug Administration and consumer protection -- "Preserve our health freedom": science in consumer politics -- "Intensity" makes the difference: vitamins in the political process -- Conclusion: vitamania?: vitamins in late twentieth-century United States.
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"Have you taken your vitamins today?" That question echoes daily through American households. Thanks to intensive research in nutrition and medicine, the importance of vitamins to health is undisputed. But millions of Americans believe that the vitamins they get in their food are not enough. Vitamin supplements have become a multibillion-dollar industry. At the same time, many scientists, consumer advocacy groups, and the federal Food and Drug Administration doubt that most people need to take vitamin pills. Vitamania tells how and why vitamins have become so important to so many Americans. Rima Apple examines the claims and counterclaims of scientists, manufacturers, retailers, politicians, and consumers from the discovery of vitamins in the early twentieth century to the present. She reveals the complicated interests - scientific, professional, financial - that have propelled the vitamin industry and its would-be regulators. From early advertisements linking motherhood and vitamin D, to Linus Pauling's claims for vitamin C, to recent congressional debates about restricting vitamin products, Apple's insightful history shows the ambivalence of Americans toward the authority of science. She also documents how consumers have insisted on their right to make their own decisions about their health and their vitamins. Vitamania makes fascinating reading for anyone who takes - or refuses to take vitamins. It will be of special interest to students, scholars, and professionals in public health, the biomedical sciences, history of medicine and science, twentieth-century history, nutrition, marketing, and consumer studies.
Electronic reproduction.
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2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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0585118337 (electronic bk.) 9780585118338 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper)
Geschichte.
Vitamins in human nutrition--Social aspects--United States.
Vitamins.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Vitamins
Drug Industry
Vitamines dans l'alimentation humaine--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Vitamines.
Industrie pharmaceutique.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Vitamins.
Vitamins in human nutrition--Social aspects.
Vitamin
Volksgesundheit
Vitaminen.
Eetgewoonten.
United States.
USA
Vitamins in human nutrition Social aspects United States
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QP771 / .A67 1996eb
615/.328
QP771.A67 / 1996
1997 D-485 QU 160 / A648v 1996
Vitamania : vitamins in American culture / Rima D. Apple. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations - Health and medicine in American society . - Health and medicine in American society. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index.
Introduction: "Perhaps your diet is too modern": the discovery of avitaminosis -- "They need it now": popular science and advertising in the interwar period -- "To protect the interest of the public": vitamins, marketing, and research -- "Superior knowledge": pharmacists, grocers, physicians, and Linus Pauling -- Miles one-a-day: the history of a vitamin dynasty -- Acnotabs: scientific evidence in the marketplace -- "Millions of consumers are being misled": the Food and Drug Administration and consumer protection -- "Preserve our health freedom": science in consumer politics -- "Intensity" makes the difference: vitamins in the political process -- Conclusion: vitamania?: vitamins in late twentieth-century United States.
Use copy
"Have you taken your vitamins today?" That question echoes daily through American households. Thanks to intensive research in nutrition and medicine, the importance of vitamins to health is undisputed. But millions of Americans believe that the vitamins they get in their food are not enough. Vitamin supplements have become a multibillion-dollar industry. At the same time, many scientists, consumer advocacy groups, and the federal Food and Drug Administration doubt that most people need to take vitamin pills. Vitamania tells how and why vitamins have become so important to so many Americans. Rima Apple examines the claims and counterclaims of scientists, manufacturers, retailers, politicians, and consumers from the discovery of vitamins in the early twentieth century to the present. She reveals the complicated interests - scientific, professional, financial - that have propelled the vitamin industry and its would-be regulators. From early advertisements linking motherhood and vitamin D, to Linus Pauling's claims for vitamin C, to recent congressional debates about restricting vitamin products, Apple's insightful history shows the ambivalence of Americans toward the authority of science. She also documents how consumers have insisted on their right to make their own decisions about their health and their vitamins. Vitamania makes fascinating reading for anyone who takes - or refuses to take vitamins. It will be of special interest to students, scholars, and professionals in public health, the biomedical sciences, history of medicine and science, twentieth-century history, nutrition, marketing, and consumer studies.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
0585118337 (electronic bk.) 9780585118338 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (paper ; alk. paper)
Geschichte.
Vitamins in human nutrition--Social aspects--United States.
Vitamins.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Vitamins
Drug Industry
Vitamines dans l'alimentation humaine--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Vitamines.
Industrie pharmaceutique.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Vitamins.
Vitamins in human nutrition--Social aspects.
Vitamin
Volksgesundheit
Vitaminen.
Eetgewoonten.
United States.
USA
Vitamins in human nutrition Social aspects United States
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QP771 / .A67 1996eb
615/.328
QP771.A67 / 1996
1997 D-485 QU 160 / A648v 1996