A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live.Only one hundred years ago, in even the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers—of diarrhea, diphtheria, and measles, of scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Throughout history, culture has been shaped by these deaths; diaries and letters recorded them, and writers such as Louisa May Alcott, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Eugene O'Neill wrote about and mourned them. Not even the powerful and the wealthy could escape: of Abraham and Mary Lincoln's four children, only one survived to adulthood, and the first billionaire in history, John D. Rockefel…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-61000-0
- EAN: 9780393610000
- Produktnummer: 34506433
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 72'750 KB
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Perri Klass is a professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, codirector of NYU Florence, and national medical director of?Reach Out and Read. She writes the weekly column The Checkup for the New York Times.
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