{"product_id":"fighting-for-life-paperback","title":"Fighting for Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eS. Josephine Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHelen Epstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \"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 (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By 1911, the child death rate had fallen sharply and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e hailed the city as the healthiest on earth. In this witty and highly personal autobiography, public health crusader Dr. S. Josephine Baker explains how this transformation was achieved. By the time she retired in 1923, Baker was famous worldwide for saving the lives of 90,000 children. The programs she developed, many still in use today, have saved the lives of millions more. She fought for women's suffrage, toured Russia in the 1930s, and captured \"Typhoid\" Mary Mallon, twice. She was also an astute observer of her times, and \u003ci\u003eFighting for Life\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most honest, compassionate memoirs of American medicine ever written.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Josephine Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (1873-1945) was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and attended the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. As the first director of New York's Bureau of Child Hygiene from 1908 to 1923, Baker's work with poor mothers and children in the immigrant communities of New York City dramatically reduced maternal and child mortality and became a model for cities across the country. On two occasions she helped to track down Mary Mallon, the cook who came to be known as Typhoid Mary. Baker wrote fifty journal articles and more than two hundred pieces for the popular press about preventive medicine, as well as six books: \u003ci\u003eHealthy Babies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHealthy Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHealthy Children\u003c\/i\u003e (all 1920), \u003ci\u003eThe Growing Child\u003c\/i\u003e (1923), \u003ci\u003eChild Hygiene\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), and her autobiography, \u003ci\u003eFighting for Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). In the 1930s Baker, along with her partner of many years, the novelist Ida Wylie, and their friend Dr. Louise Pearce, moved to a two-hundred-year-old farm in New Jersey, where she lived until her death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Epstein\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer specializing in public health and an adjunct professor at Bard College. She has advised numerous organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and has contributed articles to many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.01 x 5.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184668918009,"sku":"9781590177068","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SklReGFQZnNoblNGMnZSanR5MTJGQT09.webp?v=1767798173","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/fighting-for-life-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}