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 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 le...

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