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

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

Perri Klass

384 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health history science emotional informative medium-paced
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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 l...

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