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Dr Spock: Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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.
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