A good time to be born how science and public health gave children a future
"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...
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Postmortem poetry and comfort books : literary echoes of child mortality
- "Ma'am, have you ever lost a child?" : child death in Civil War America
- "We might wonder that any survive" : mortality, miasmas, and mother's milk
- "Each has a right to live" : educating mothers and keeping babies alive
- "The plague among children" : diphtheria and the doctors
- "Most dreaded of all the diseases" : scarlet fever, strep, and antibiotics
- "Strides of modern medical science" : preventing polio, treating tuberculosis
- The incubator show : life and death in the delivery room and the nursery
- "Something children always have" : measles and chicken pox
- "Safe to sleep" : postwar parents, postwar pediatricians.
