Fighting for Life
Book description
An âengaging and . . . thought-provokingâ memoir of battling public health crises in early 20th-century New York Cityâfrom the pioneering female physician and childrenâs health advocate who âcaughtâ Typhoid Mary (The New York Times)
New Yorkâs Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mileâŠ
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Medicine loves stories about heroic men who made breakthroughs that have saved lives and given us the life expectancies we have today. It has never celebrated women and yet it was a woman, Josephine Baker, who in two decades starting in 1908, by focusing on antenatal and postnatal care, laid a basis for saving lives that has given us the life expectancies we have today. She did so against fierce opposition from doctors who argued that creating conditions that make infants and children healthy would be bad for medical business. Now that life expectancies are falling, and were falling beforeâŠ
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