Science on Tap–Seattle: A Good Time To Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future by Perri Klass
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. Not even the powerful and the wealthy could escape, and for children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and…