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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation weighing 1 pound, 4 ounces. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love--to save her, or to let her go? Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's life, and this is their incredible tale.
2) The strange case of Dr. Couney: how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies-by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, and at the same time make good money displaying...
