by Stephen M. Sagar M.D. · tapa dura · ISBN 9781633888265
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«Vitamin C» is the scientific biography by Stephen M. Sagar M.D., published by Prometheus in hardback (192 pages, in English).
The book traces five centuries of the history of vitamin C, from the scurvy that ravaged Europe to the supplement industry. It describes how that disease gave rise to epidemiology, how vitamins were discovered, and how Linus Pauling popularised megadoses, revealing the ins and outs of science and its interests.
The book was originally published in 2022 in English, with the subtitle «A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience».
For readers interested in the history of medicine, science and nutrition.
