Learning to Listen - T Berry Brazelton

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Résumé :
America's baby doctor tells the inspiring story behind a half century of caring for, understanding, and championing children.

Biographie:
T. Berry Brazelton, MD was professor emeritus of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and adjunct professor of psychiatry, human behavior, and pediatrics at Brown University.

Kirkus Reviews, 4/1 The most fascinating parts of the memoir are most likely to be [Brazelton's] accounts of his experiences studying newborns in other cultures: Mayans in southern Mexico, Guatemalans, Kenyans, urban and rural Japanese, Chinese, Navajos in Arizona and Greeks on the island of Thera...Readers familiar with Brazelton's books and articles on babies and children may relish this close-up look at the man who guided them through the vicissitudes of parenthood. Booklist, 5/1/13 [An] affable memoir...It takes a special person to be a pediatrician, and Dr. Brazelton's remarkable life stamps him as a truly exceptional one. Boston Globe, 4/26/13 Colorful stories.InfoDad.com, 4/25/13 Very well written in a very New York if not quite New Yorker style, elevated and erudite and seeming to stand back from and examine experience even while experiencing it...[Gross] is certainly well-traveled and has met and written about some very interesting people. Publishers Weekly, 5/6/13 [An] engaging memoir...Although many may know Brazelton from his books and TV show (What Every Baby Knows), here, he also chronicles his years of researching infants and families in such places as Kenya, Greece, Mexico, Guatemala, and Japan, with characteristic warmth and humor.New York Journal of Books, 4/30/13 [A] sensitive memoir [that] fills a gap as to the theoretical and practical roots of contemporary child raising practice. Learning to Listen is a timely reminder (on Brazelton's 95th birthday) of his huge contribution to child rearing...A compassionate glimpse at the young boy and man who became such an internationally trusted pediatrician...Learning to Listen is a must-read for professionals and lay people alike--anyone interested in babies and in parenting. Wall Street Journal, 5/15/13 At 95, pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton ranks as the eminence grise of infant and child development...a celebrity long before Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil