A01=Perri Klass
Author_Perri Klass
Category=MBN
Category=MBX
Category=MKD
child mortality
children
dysentary
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family
immunizations
infants
influenza
maternal mortality
measels
medical history
medicine
mmr
motherhood
pediatrics
polio
rhematic fever
typhus
vaccine
Product details
- ISBN 9780393609998
- Weight: 611g
- Dimensions: 163 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2020
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 groundbreaking women doctors who brought new scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. Thanks to their work, early death is now the exception, bringing about a massive transformation in society and freeing parents to worry a lot more about a lot less.
Perri Klass is 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.
