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The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.

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"A Good Time to be Born is an ambitious, elegant meditation on what the doctor-writer Perri Klass describes as one of our greatest human achievements: a reduction in child mortality... [Klass] takes the most complex human patterns of all—history, medicine, politics, art—and knits them into something unique and beautiful... This is an important book for many reasons, but that Klass has given voice to the voiceless is perhaps the most significant." -- The New York Times Book Review

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: 13/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9780393609998, 978-0393609998
      ISBN10: 0393609995
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      History of medicine Paediatric medicine Public health and preventive medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.

      Trade Review
      "A Good Time to be Born is an ambitious, elegant meditation on what the doctor-writer Perri Klass describes as one of our greatest human achievements: a reduction in child mortality... [Klass] takes the most complex human patterns of all—history, medicine, politics, art—and knits them into something unique and beautiful... This is an important book for many reasons, but that Klass has given voice to the voiceless is perhaps the most significant." -- The New York Times Book Review

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