A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future

A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future

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―of diar…

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