Professor of History Christian Warren has published his second book, Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency, 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’s 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’s “migration” into the indoors. Janet Golden, author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans Into the Twentieth Century, said of the book: “This 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’t want to swallow cod liver oil after reading this book, but you might want to reach for a Sunshine Vitamin D Beer—alas, no longer available.” In addition to the book, Warren wrote a Halloween-themed blog, “The Bowlegged Ghost: A Halloween Tale of Specters, Rickets, and Politics.”
