Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

doi:10.1056/NEJM200402053500625

Volume 350:625-626		February 5, 2004		Number 6

Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

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By Alan M. Kraut. 313 pp., illustrated. New York, Hill and Wang, 2003. $25. ISBN 0-374-13537-1.

Goldberger's War opens in 1916, as Joseph Goldberger injectshis wife with blood taken from patients with advanced pellagra.As the vignette suggests, historian Alan Kraut's engaging biographyis about a bold medical investigator, an inexplicable disease,human experimentation, and an unusual marriage.

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Joseph Goldberger
Courtesy of the Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health.

In 1874 Joseph Goldberger and his family left Hungary for NewYork City. His father ran a grocery store on the Lower EastSide, and the son studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital's MedicalCollege, graduating in 1895. Goldberger's limited means and. . . [Full Text of this Article]