Vitamania : vitamins in American culture /
"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 enoug...
| Основен автор: | Apple, Rima D. 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
℗♭1996.
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| Серия: |
Health and medicine in American society.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=18327 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Vitamania. |
Съдържание:
- 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.