Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader
- ISBN-10
- 0374606323
- ISBN-13
- 9780374606329
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-05-25
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Author
- Alan M. Kraut
Description
Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became a young recruit to the federal government's health service, and ended an American plague. He did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting on humans, and telling the South precisely what it didn't want to hear.
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