The New Pediatrics: A Profession in Transition

by Dorothy Pawluch

When antibiotics became readily available in the 1950s, the danger of life-threatening infectious childhood diseases virtually disappeared. In that era, pediatricians broadened the core professional task of their specialty--the prevention and treatment of such diseases--to incorporate the behavioral and psychosocial problems of children and adolescents. Pediatricians themselves began to refer to this changing emphasis as the "new pediatrics," and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202305341
• ISBN13: 9780202305349
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"