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oapen-20.500.12657-258532021-11-12T16:07:42Z The Vitamin A Story Semba, Richard D. Medicine & Public Health Nutrition Ophthalmology Biochemistry History of Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Social Medicine Vitamins bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine::MBNH Personal & public health::MBNH3 Dietetics & nutrition 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. 2019-11-28 03:00:29 2020-04-01T10:51:16Z 2020-04-01T10:51:16Z 2012-01-01 book 1004233 OCN: 1058520104 9783318021899 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25853 eng application/pdf n/a 1004233.pdf Karger 10.1159/isbn.978-3-318-02189 103006 10.1159/isbn.978-3-318-02189 7bca2022-473f-4da6-bdd7-3daa111614de b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783318021899 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103006 KU Select 2018: STEM Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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