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Starved for Light

Christian Warren

A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency. Rickets, a childhood disorder that causes soft and misshapen...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction: Sun and Skin and Bones

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Chapter 1: “Coeval with Civilization”: Rickets from Ancient Egypt to the “Dark Satanic Mills”

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Chapter 2: Rickets and Race in the United States, 1492–1900

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Chapter 3: Diet or Light? The Science of Rickets I

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Chapter 4: Testing the Cure: The Science of Rickets II

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Chapter 5: Cod Liver Oil: From Folk Remedy to Proven “Specific”

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Chapter 6: Improving upon Perfection: Modern Vitamin D Fortification

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Chapter 7: A Long Shadow

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Chapter 8: No Magic Bolus: Rickets, Risk, and Race in the Age of Uncertainty

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Chapter 9: Epilogue: Hard Choices, Slow Violence

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Closing Notes

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