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History of Nutrition / Diet

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1920Scurvy, past and present.
1932Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.
1939The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
1957A history of nutrition.
1965Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.
1973Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.
1977Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
1986The history of scurvy and vitamin C.
1986A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
1989Food in history. Revised and updated edition
1989Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
1990Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
1992Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.
1992Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1994Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.
1995La nutrition préhistorique.
1998Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
1999Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
2000The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.
2000The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
2000Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.
2001Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.
2001Rising life expectancy: A global history.
2003The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.
2006The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.
2007The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.
2009Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.
2009Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.
2009Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
2010The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.
2010Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.
2012Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
2013Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.
2014Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
2014Food and environment in early and medieval China.
2014Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
2015Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.
2016Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
2016The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
2020Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.
2020The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.