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Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:211-212.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

BOOK REVIEWS

Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

Jerrold M. Michael

Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037

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By Alan M. Kraut

ISBN 0-374-13537-1, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (Telephone: 212-741-6900, Fax: 212-206-5340, e-mail: fsg.publicity@fsgbooks.com, Web site: http://www.fsgbooks.com), 2003, 336 pp., $25 (hardcover)

This book about one of the most well regarded early epidemiologists in the United States covers not only Dr. Joseph Goldberger’s long history of investigations of disease outbreaks and his research as Public Health Service Officer of the Hygienic Laboratory (the precursor of the National Institutes of Health) but also his personal life as an immigrant Jew who married the grandniece of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Highlighted is his role in solving the puzzle of pellagra—a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries.

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