1. Who was Joseph Goldberger, where was he born and educated? How is his career an immigrant narrative?
2. What do you think was the role of the U.S. Public Health Service?
3. What did Goldberger and Sydenstricker set out to demonstrate? How did they go about doing it?
4. What does their work tell us about the contemporary germ theory paradigm? What relationship did it bear, if any, to the old environmental paradigm of the 19th century?
5. What was the public health implications of their work? Did it require a specific, limited remedy or a fundamental social reform? How does this question resonate with the earliest decades of the public health movement?
6. What is the relationship of science to public policy?
