Nations Are Built of Babies: Saving Ontario’s Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

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pp.340 “A fascinating story of government involvement in people’s lives, internecine rivalries in the medical profession (especially between doctors and nurses), and the prominent role played in the ongoing debate by such prominent women as Helen MacMurchy and Charlotte Whitton.” Gerald J. Stortz, Canadian Book Review Annual “A welcome addition to the field of Canadian medical history … The book is a revealing analysis of a major public health campaign that lasted for decades because it took so long to get to the underlying causes of infant mortality. Most of all, Comacchio’s work is another reminder of the wider social and economic determinants of health, an important conclusion that is increasingly guiding our health care system in the 1990s.”