Ravenous : Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the search for the cancer-diet connection / Sam Apple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apple, Sam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biochemists--Germany--Biography.

Biochemists.

Cancer--Nutritional aspects.

Cancer.

Cancer cells--Growth.

Cancer cells.

Cancer--Research--Germany--History--20th century.

Science and state--Germany--History--20th century.

Science and state.

Cancer--Research.

History.

Germany.

National socialism and medicine.

National socialism and science.

Biochemistry--history.

Neoplasms--history.

Neoplasms--diet therapy.

Neoplasms--prevention & control.

History, 20th Century.

Warburg, Otto Heinrich, 1883-1970.

Warburg, Otto Heinrich.

Medical Subjects:

Biochemistry--history.

Neoplasms--history.

Neoplasms--diet therapy.

Neoplasms--prevention & control.

History, 20th Century.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Summary:

"The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg-a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs-was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors dreaded cancer, and protected Warburg in the hope that he could cure it"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A "Disease of Civilization" (Late Nineteenth Century-1918)

1. "A Chemical Laboratory of the Most Amazing Kind"

2. "The Great Unsolved Problem"

3. Magic Bullets

4. Glucose, Cancer, and the Crown Prince

5. "Slaves of the Light"

pt. II "The Meaning of Life Disappears" (1919-1945)

6. The Warburg Effect

7. The Emperor of Dahlem

8. "The Eternal Jew"

9. "The Herb Garden" of Dachau

10. The Age of Koch

11. "I Refused to Intervene"

pt. III The Seed and the Soil (Postwar)

12. Coming to America

13. Two Engines

14. "Strange New Creatures of Our Own Making"

15. The Prime Cause of Cancer

16. Cancer and Diet

pt. IV Pure, White, and Deadly (The Twenty-First Century)

17. Lost and Found

18. The Metabolism Revival

19. Diabetes and Cancer

20. The Insulin Hypothesis

21. Sugar

22. The Evil Twin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781631493157

1631493159

OCLC:

1240266209

Publisher Number:

99987720845