1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min) : sound, color with black and white sequences
Summary
'You are what you eat' is a modern maxim which owes its genesis to a group of hungry self-experimenters who turned medical orthodoxy on its head by proving that nutrition is critical to good health. Medical Mavericks: Diet and Disease shows how the links between food and health were first established by men like Dr Joseph Goldberger, who changed forever what goes into our food. In 1769, Dr Joseph Goldberger ate the faeces and scabs from patients with pellagra in his quest to prove it was not infectious. When the medical establishment ignored him he went on to inject himself and his devoted wife with the blood of a woman dying with pellagra to make his point
Credits
Directed and produced by Hannah Robson and Helen Shariatmadari ; Series producer: Alison Gregory
