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Fighting For Life S Josephine Baker

Name: Fighting For Life S Josephine Baker
SKU: BELL-48100978
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (100 reviews)

SKU: BELL-48100978

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Publisher: New York Review Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 1.31 MB

Author: S. Josephine Baker

ISBN: 9781590177075, 159017707X

Language: English

Year: 2013

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Fighting For Life S Josephine Baker by S. Josephine Baker 9781590177075, 159017707X instant download after payment.

An “engaging and . . . thought-provoking” memoir of battling public health crises in early 20th-century New York City—from the pioneering female physician and children’s health advocate who ‘caught’ Typhoid Mary (The New York Times)

New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment heaps destined for fashionable shops. Desperate mothers paced the streets to soothe their feverish children and white mourning cloths hung from every building. A third of the children living there died before their fifth birthday.
By 1911, the child death rate had fallen sharply and The New York Times hailed the city as the healthiest on earth. In this witty and highly...