Vitamania : vitamins in American culture /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Health and medicine in American society
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=18327 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.