Joseph Goldberger was an American physician and epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service.
18 Facts About Joseph Goldberger
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Joseph Goldberger was born in Giralt, Saros County, Kingdom of Hungary, into a Jewish family.
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Joseph Goldberger joined the US Marine Hospital Service in 1899, serving first post at the Port of New York, where he conducted health inspections of newly arrived immigrants.
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Joseph Goldberger was involved in PHS efforts to combat yellow fever, typhus, dengue fever, and typhoid fever.
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Joseph Goldberger gave a particularly noted lecture in Boston, Massachusetts on the effects of parasites in disease transmission.
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In 1909, Joseph Goldberger published his research on an acarine mite-based parasitic infection common among poor, inner-city populations.
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Joseph Goldberger worked with John F Anderson investigating the transmission of measles and typhus.
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In 1914, Joseph Goldberger was asked by US Surgeon General Rupert Blue to investigate pellagra, then an endemic disease in the Southern US.
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Joseph Goldberger's theory that pellagra was associated with diet contradicted the most widely accepted medical opinion that pellagra was an infectious disease.
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Joseph Goldberger requested access to prisoners of the Rankin State Prison Farm to try and induce pellagra in them.
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Joseph Goldberger chose this prison in particular because it previously had no cases of pellagra.
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Joseph Goldberger experimented on 11 healthy volunteers from the Rankin State Prison Farm for this 9-month study.
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Joseph Goldberger observed that the subjects became weaker and weaker as the days went on.
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Joseph Goldberger conducted one final experiment, referred to as "filth parties", to silence the critics.
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Joseph Goldberger died of renal cell carcinoma in Washington, DC on January 19,1929, at the age of 54.
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Joseph Goldberger was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize.
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In 1940, John Nesbitt produced a short film about Joseph Goldberger titled A Way in the Wilderness, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Shepperd Strudwick.
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Joseph Goldberger's papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.