A Good Time to Be Born
How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
13 November 2020
Description
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.
The near-conquest of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Perri Klass pulls the story together for the first time, paying tribute to scientists, public health advocates, and groundbreaking women doctors who brought new scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. Thanks to their work, early death is now the exception, bringing about a massive transformation in society and freeing parents to worry a lot more about a lot less.
Reviews
"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
Also By: Perri Klass 
The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Paperback, 2022
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live
The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
E Book, 2020
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.
