· In her just-reissued autobiography, “Fighting for Life,” S. Josephine Baker, the turn-of-the-century doctor, reaches through time with her still-relevant insights and startlingly modern www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. · Baker wrote fifty journal articles and more than two hundred pieces for the popular press about preventive medicine, as well as six books: Healthy Babies, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Children (all ), The Growing Child (), Child Hygiene (), and her autobiography, Fighting for Life (). In the s Baker, along with her partner of many years, the novelist Ida Wylie, and their ISBN A simply fascinating autobiography written in the late 's. S. Josephine Baker was one of the first women in the US to get a medical degree in the early s. She later went on to be a "crusader" for children's health care and the Children's Health Agency in New York City, she also founded herself as one of the early supporters of the Women's Suffrage movement in the US/5.
Steven Soderbergh's "The Knick" should be accompanied by the fascinating memoirs of S. Josephine Baker, one of New York City's early female doctors. "Fighting for Life," the She was also an astute observer of her times, and Fighting for Life is one of the most honest, compassionate memoirs of American medicine ever written. show more. ( ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. New York Review Books Classics. English. By (author) S. Josephine Baker. US$ US$ You save US$ Genre/Form: Biographies Biography: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Baker, S. Josephine (Sara Josephine), Fighting for life. Huntington, N.Y.
About S. Josephine Baker: Sara Josephine Baker (Novem – Febru) was an American physician notable for making contributions to publ. In December, I read a review in the New York Times about Fighting for Life, a autobiography by Sara Josephine Baker that recently was re-released. A medical doctor and New York City public health official, Baker is said to have saved “90, babies." I was intrigued. I’m a scholar and teacher of the medical humanities; I have a keen. Baker wrote fifty journal articles and more than two hundred pieces for the popular press about preventive medicine, as well as six books: Healthy Babies, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Children (all.
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