The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
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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 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393882381
ISBN13:9780393882384
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:400 Pages
Weight:0.67 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"
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