Joseph goldbergers autobiography

          Pellagra epidemic of 1907...

          Joseph Goldberger

          American epidemiologist

          Joseph Goldberger (Slovak: Jozef Goldberger, Hungarian: Goldberger József) (July 16, 1874 – January 17, 1929) was an American physician and epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service (PHS).

          As a public health official, he was an advocate for scientific and social recognition of the links between poverty and disease.[1] His early work with arriving immigrants at Ellis Island made him a standout investigator for detecting infectious diseases and he became a well-known epidemiologist.[1]

          Goldberger was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize for his important work on the link between pellagra and poor diet.

          Pellagra discovery

        1. For fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Alan M. Kraut's Goldberg's War tells the story of one doctor's courageous journey to cure deadly diseases and epidemics.
        2. Pellagra epidemic of 1907
        3. This is the story of the public health doctor who found that pellagra, the “scourge of the south,” was caused by a flawed diet.
        4. His life was devoted largely to study of infectious diseases made under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service, but the climax of his career.

          5. Early life

          Goldberger was born in Girált, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary (now Giraltovce, Slovakia), into a Jewish family. The youngest of six children, he immigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1883, eventually settling in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

          Education

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