Article ID: CBB000051487

Physicians' scepticism towards vitamins: The issue of negative causality (1987)

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Description On the controversy over the deficiency theory of disease in the 1910s and 1920s, especially in England.


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Authors & Contributors
Sinding, Christiane
McDowell, Lee
Wolf, George
Webb, John
Tateo, Francesco
Rafter, Gale W.
Concepts
Metabolic and deficiency diseases
Wave-particle duality
Anemia
Vegetables
Eye diseases
Vitamins
Time Periods
20th century
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
21st century
19th century
Places
British Isles
Netherlands
Norway
Asia
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