Professor of History Christian Warren has published his second book, , which highlights his expertise on the history of medicine and public health in the United States. The book serves as a wide-ranging history of rickets that chronicles the disease鈥檚 emergence, evolution, and eventual treatments, while exposing the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency.
Warren specializes in the history of medicine and public health in the United States. He is working on his next book, which will trace the history of American鈥檚 鈥渕igration鈥� into the indoors.
Janet Golden, author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans Into the Twentieth Century, said of the book: 鈥淭his is a fascinating, well-researched, and lively account of the long history of rickets. This wide-ranging volume explores the emergence of modern medicine, theories of race and disease, public health, and ethics, literally lighting the way to a greater understanding of this medical condition. You won鈥檛 want to swallow cod liver oil after reading this book, but you might want to reach for a Sunshine Vitamin D Beer鈥攁las, no longer available.鈥�
In addition to the book, Warren wrote a Halloween-themed blog,
