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Donald Geddes, a former editor at Pocket Books, made the sales pitch of his life in 1943. Badgering a reluctant pediatrician who felt that he lacked the knowledge to attempt a book on babies, Geddes tried a bit of psychological % judo. At 25 cents a copy, he declared, a baby book was bound to sell briskly no matter what it said. So, he concluded, "the book we want doesn't have to be very good...
...paperback book costs a bit more now, $4.95. The 40th-anniversary edition has a new title, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, and a co-author, Michael B. Rothenberg, 58, a Seattle pediatrician and child psychiatrist at the University of Washington who has signed on to update the book periodically until the end of this century. Despite four revisions, the core of the book, the psychosocial recommendations to parents, is basically unchanged. Every now and then a child-development expert grumbles that Spock has not kept up. But the author says, with much justice, that he simply...
...afraid to trust your own common sense." A friendly and homey prose style, at once humble and authoritative, has convinced millions of mothers that he is an author who can be trusted. "He put everybody in a more laid-back attitude toward raising children," says Memphis Pediatrician James Hughes...
Rothchild spins a tale of the wild, wild South in which motives, loyalties and identities are lost in a tangle of crime and counterinsurgency. The absurdist flavor of his account is best sampled through a procession of shady characters, including "the terrorist pediatrician," a Cuban exile accused of blowing up one of Castro's airliners and firing a bazooka at ships from the causeway linking Miami to Miami Beach...
...refused to reveal the child's real name, the identity of her parents or even her exact age. They did say that she was about two weeks old at the time of surgery and had been born three weeks premature. Baby Fae was referred to Loma Linda by a pediatrician in Barstow, Calif. The 546-bed facility is one of more than 60 U.S. hospitals operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and has a fine reputation in pediatric heart surgery. Fae was suffering from hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a fatal condition said to affect one in 12,000 newborns...