Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0731SDBK9 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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By contrast, most mainstream doctors in the early part of the 20th century regarded premature babies as "weaklings" and did little or nothing to save them. She brings one of the most extraordinary stories in American medicine to life through interviews with Couney's former "incubator babies.". But he didn't charge the parents of the preemies a penny; instead the public paid to see them. Couney's techniques were advanced for the time and his facility was expensive to run. How did thousands of premature infants come to be exhibited at America's most popular amusement park? In Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine, Claire Prentice uncovers the incredible true story of Martin Couney, the "incubator doctor." Couney ran his incubator facility for premature babies at Coney Island from 1903 to 1943 and set up similar exhibits at World's Fairs an
A little more science please! K. L Sadler I can't tell you how many times I've read about these babies at Coney Island and elsewhere while reading other things, whether it was books or magazine articles, or encyclopedias. So when I saw this book on the 'doctor' who started all this, of course, I grabbed it. The book didn't disappoint too much. It was very interestingI'm always amazed at the types of things that people got away with prior to even the 1960's. Considering I've read so much about eugenics and the Nazis (and written about all of this and the disabled in papers), you would think nothing would surprise me at this point. At least . Ria said Nice credit for a man who earned it. An interesting read, but fairly flaky on the facts. For the simple fact that the Mrs. Prentice did not bother to get someone who knew also French and German and thus only did really research the English language material available. If she had, she would have found out immediately that the French doctor who invented the incubator was someone she did not even mention in her book and who was actually the one in charge of the exhibit in Berlin. There are actual photographs there where the people who worked on the exhibit can be seen. The Germans kept very detailed material on the case which has not bee. Great story about something now totally forgotten This is a very interesting and bizarre tale. Today it sounds so strange that premature infants were used in a side show - dare I say freak show - at world fairs and Coney Island. A lot of things people used to do back in the early 20th century seems odd now when one looks back on it. But this actually turned out well for the infants, most of whom lived. Human life was not seen as valuable back then as it is now. Even in the 1950's parents did not hover around their children as they do nowadays. Kids were allowed to bounce around the car like pennies in a tin can and nothing was considered as to saf