Ravenous Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the search for the cancer-diet connection
Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly wit...
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- "A chemical laboratory of the most amazing kind"
- "The great unsolved problem"
- Magic bullets
- Glucose, cancer, and the crown prince
- "Slaves of the light"
- The Warburg effect
- The emperor of Dahlem
- "The eternal Jew"
- "The herb garden" of Dachau
- The age of Koch
- "I refused to intervene"
- Coming to America
- Two engines
- "Strange new creatures of our own making"
- The prime cause of cancer
- Cancer and diet
- Lost and found
- The metabolism revival
- Diabetes and cancer
- The insulin hypothesis
- Sugar
- The evil twin.
