Winifred May de Kok, M.D. (17 May 1893 – 1969) was a South Africa born writer.
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She was born in South Africa on 17 May 1893 and attended medical school in England during the 1920s. She married Alfred Edgar Coppard, the British short story writer at Oxford and a leading light of a literary group, the New Elizabethans. She practiced medicine until 1953. In that year she became a television broadcaster, for a show that discussed family life and family health. The show was broadcast by the BBC as Tell Me, Doctor.[1][2] A forthright spokeswoman for women's and neonates' health before the era of family planning, she published several books and articles on parenting and family health. She died in 1969.
Selected works
edit- New Babes for Old (1932)
- First Baby (1947)
- You and Your Child (1955)
- Your Baby and You (1957)
References
edit- ^ "Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) and her children". Smithsonian Institution. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ^ "Winifred May de Kok". British Medical Journal. 3: 658–661. 13 September 1969. doi:10.1136/bmj.3.5671.658. S2CID 220203010. Retrieved 15 March 2011.