Perri Klass

A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future

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Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers-of diarrhea, diphtheria and measles, of scarlet fever and meningitis. Culture was shaped by these deaths; diaries and letters recorded them, poets and writers wrote about and lamented them. Not even the high and mighty could escape: presidents and titans of industry lost their children, the poor and powerless lost theirs even more frequently.The near-conquest of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Perri Klass pulls the story together for the first time, paying tribute to scientists, public health advocates, and… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-60999-8
EAN: 9780393609998
Produktnummer: 33446617
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.6 cm 590 g
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

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.