For the first time in human memory, early death is now the exception rather than the rule. Perri Klass’ A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future celebrates the doctors, nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas that made it happen. She’s trading thoughts and insights with Pam Fessler, author of Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, a telling of the unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled there, hidden away with their “shameful” disease.
