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Sara Josephine Baker Biography (1873-1945) Sara Josephine Baker was a pioneer in public health care and preventive medicine in the early part of the twentieth century. Josephine Baker (as she preferred to be called) was born into a wealthy New York family. When her father died, she decided to become a physician, an unheard of ambition for girls ...
Oct 19, 2021 · She also fought for women's suffrage, toured Russia in the 1930s, and captured "Typhoid" Mary Malone, twice. 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"--Provided by publisher Includes index Baker, S. Josephine (Sara Josephine), 1873-1945.
Baker died in 1945 at the age of 71, having almost single-handedly changed the New York health system, using Hell’s Kitchen as a starting point. She concluded. Fighting for Life. by observing ...
May 6, 2022 · May 6th, 2022. Share This Story, Choose Your Platform! Doctor Sara Josephine Baker: Fighting for Life In 1890, two men from the same household died from typhoid fever, only a few months apart. Sadly, this was not uncommon. What makes their deaths so special is that their loss of life inspired a young girl to change her goal of studying.
Sara Josephine Baker (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 ...
Baker, S. Josephine. Fighting for Life. New York Review of Books, 2013. Baker, Sara Josephine. Child Hygiene. Harper & Bros., 1925. ———. Healthy Babies: A Volume Devoted to the Health of the Expectant Mother and the Care and Welfare of the Child. Federal Publishing Company, 1923. ———.
Sara Josephine Baker: Public Health Pioneer, 1873-1945, by Karisa Butler-Wall. An exhibit on the life of Sara Josephine Baker, a pioneering figure in the history of public health. Published originally on OutHistory in 2014.
