TY  - GEN
AU  - Semba,Richard D.
AU  - Semba,Richard D.
TI  - The Vitamin A Story : Lifting the Shadow of Death
SN  - isbn.978-3-318-02189
PY  - 2012///0101
PB  - Karger
KW  - Dietetics & nutrition
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Ophthalmology
KW  - Biochemistry
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Pediatrics
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Social Medicine
KW  - Vitamins
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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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UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30823
ER  -