A Good Time to Be Born

A century ago, no family, no matter how wealthy, could statistically count on all their children living to adulthood. Even Rockefeller's first grandchild died of scarlet fever. Thanks to genius medical advancements and improvements in public health practices, we are, by and large, unacquainted with that reality.  Guest: Dr. Perri Klass, MD, Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU Florence, and author of "A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future"