A Good Time To Be Born
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The Best Medicine How Science And Public Health Gave Children A Future
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Author : Perri Klass
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-10-13
The Best Medicine How Science And Public Health Gave Children A Future written by Perri Klass and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Medical categories.
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 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 four children, only one survived to adulthood, and the first billionaire in history, John D. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that—for the first time in human memory—early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life. Previously published in hardcover as A Good Time to Be Born.
A Good Time To Be Born
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Author : Perri Klass
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-10-27
A Good Time To Be Born written by Perri Klass and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Medical categories.
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 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 four children, only one survived to adulthood, and the first billionaire in history, John D. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that—for the first time in human memory—early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life.
A Time To Be Born
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Author : Dawn Powell
language : en
Publisher: Steerforth
Release Date : 2011-11-08
A Time To Be Born written by Dawn Powell and has been published by Steerforth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with Fiction categories.
This scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler—who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, “Who can I believe? Me or myself?” Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.
A Time To Be Born
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language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 1998
A Time To Be Born written by and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Childbirth categories.
Quite A Good Time To Be Born
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Author : David Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-01-29
Quite A Good Time To Be Born written by David Lodge and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.
A Time To Be Born A Time To Die
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Author : Isaac Klein
language : en
Publisher: U'd Syn Conservative Judaism
Release Date : 1976
A Time To Be Born A Time To Die written by Isaac Klein and has been published by U'd Syn Conservative Judaism this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Religion categories.
Born At The Right Time
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Author : Doug Owram
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1997-06-01
Born At The Right Time written by Doug Owram and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-01 with History categories.
From Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of the baby-boomers became predominant themes for all of society. The first Canadian history of a legendary generation.
Born To Be Good The Science Of A Meaningful Life
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Author : Dacher Keltner
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-10-05
Born To Be Good The Science Of A Meaningful Life written by Dacher Keltner and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-05 with Science categories.
“A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.”—Library Journal, starred review In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short,” why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and cooperative societies? Illustrated with more than fifty photographs of human emotions, Born to Be Good takes us on a journey through scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy. Positive emotions, Keltner finds, lie at the core of human nature and shape our everyday behavior—and they just may be the key to understanding how we can live our lives better. Some images in this ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
Holy Bible Niv
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Author : Various Authors,
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2008-09-02
Holy Bible Niv written by Various Authors, and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Bibles categories.
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
A Guide To Being Born
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Author : Ramona Ausubel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-05-02
A Guide To Being Born written by Ramona Ausubel and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell, from the author of the new collection, Awayland—an enthralling book of stories that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form. A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life—love, conception, gestation, birth—and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel’s stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. In “Atria” a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in “Catch and Release” a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in “Tributaries” people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. Funny, surprising, and delightfully strange—all the stories have a strong emotional core; Ausubel’s primary concern is always love, in all its manifestations.