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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#8212;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 sci

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Author

Perri Klass

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393610000

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Economics, Business

Rating

4.4 / 5 (51 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14