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Jarrow, Gail

Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat

192 pp. | Boyds/Calkins | April, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59078-732-8 $16.95
(3) YA In 1902, a young man in Georgia displayed symptoms of a disease believed to be nonexistent in the U.S.: pellagra, a deficiency disease. Jarrow unfolds the suspenseful search for a cause of the South's epidemic, as corn fungus, insect- and bird-born parasites, and more were all blamed and rejected. Plentiful archival photos, many of victims, add emotional heft. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind.
Reviewer: Gail Hedges

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