Terrors of the table The curious history of nutrition

Gratzer recounts this history with characteristic crispness and verve. The book teems with colorful personalities, a veritable who's who of medical history, and highlights the brilliant flashes of insight as well as the sadly mistaken leaps of logic in the centuries-long effort to understand ho...

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Tác giả chính: Gratzer, Walter
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English
Được phát hành: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2005
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