Living to Grow Up: How Childhood Death Became "Unnatural"

 

Perri Klass, MD

 

Date: August 30, 2022 | Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm | Location: via Zoom

 

Perri Klass, MD, our 4th Annual Health Humanities Lecturer, is a prolific physician-author who writes medical journalism, creative nonfiction, and fiction. During her visit, she will discuss her latest book, The Best Medicine: How Science and Medicine Gave Children a Future, in which she shows how the decline in infant and child mortality has transformed parenting and society as well as medical practice. Dr. Klass weaves stories of pioneering women physicians, public health advocates, and scientists with poignant accounts of historical parents, such as Abraham and Mary Lincoln, who suffered the deaths of their children.