Dr Spock: Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Witness History: Archive 2011 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, a book that revolutionised the way people thought about bringing up children in the years after World War II. The book sold half million copies within six months of publication in 1946. We hear from Lynn Bloom, a friend of Dr Spock, and his biographer.