TY - JOUR T1 - Slumdoc Pioneer JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 414 LP - 414 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X681097 VL - 64 IS - 625 AU - Charlotte Alexander Y1 - 2014/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/625/414.1.abstract N2 - Fighting for Life S Josephine Baker NYRB Classics, 2013 PB, 280pp, £16.95, 978-1590177068Fighting for Life is the absorbing memoir of American doctor Sara Josephine Baker. She was a pioneer of public health in 1900s New York when the notion of preventive medicine scarcely existed. Her work began in the notorious ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ slums of the Upper West Side where summertime diarrhoeal epidemics killed one in three children before they were five. Such was the filth and destitution, the area was condemned as an ‘out and out hog pen’ … ER -