Like his earlier book, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace ( 1), Professor Kraut illuminates the political climate operative at the time and its effect on the public’s health. Of particular interest to faculty and students of public health, preventive medicine, and public policy is the book’s interface of science and health policy. Highlighted is his role in solving the puzzle of pellagra-a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries. Joseph Goldberger’s long history of investigations of disease outbreaks and his research as Public Health Service Officer of the Hygienic Laboratory (the precursor of the National Institutes of Health) but also his personal life as an immigrant Jew who married the grandniece of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. This book about one of the most well regarded early epidemiologists in the United States covers not only Dr. ISBN 7-1, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (Telephone: 21, Fax: 21, e-mail: Web site: ), 2003, 336 pp., $25 (hardcover)
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