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Vitamania : vitamins in American culture / Rima D. Apple.
Holman Biotech Commons QP771 .A67 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-
- Series:
- Health and medicine in American society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vitamins in human nutrition--Social aspects--United States.
- Vitamins.
- Drug Industry.
- Vitamins in human nutrition--Social aspects.
- Vitamins in human nutrition.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Vitamins.
- Drug Industry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- 'Vitamania' tells how and why vitamins have become so important to so many Americans. Apple examines the claims and counterclaims of scientists, manufacturers, retailers, politicians, and consumers from the discovery of vitamins in the early twentieth century to the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813522773
- 0813522781
- OCLC:
- 33441498
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