Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency

by 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 bones, transformed from an ancient but infrequent threat to a common scourge during the Industrial Revolution. Factories, mills, and urban growth transformed the landscape. Malnutrition and insufficient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022615193X
• ISBN13: 9780226151939
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages