The Resource A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future, Perri Klass
A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future, Perri Klass
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- Summary
- "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. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that--for the first time in human memory--early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life" --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393609998
- Label
- A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future
- Title
- A good time to be born
- Title remainder
- how science and public health gave children a future
- Statement of responsibility
- Perri Klass
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that--for the first time in human memory--early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life" --
- Assigning source
- Amazon.com
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Klass, Perri
- Dewey number
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- 614.44083
- 362.19892
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Children
- Infants
- Children
- Medicine
- Preventive health services
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
- Label
- A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future, Perri Klass
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-357) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1137821310
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393609998
- Lccn
- 2020022472
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1137821310
- Label
- A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future, Perri Klass
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-357) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1137821310
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393609998
- Lccn
- 2020022472
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1137821310
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