The New Pediatrics: A Profession in Transition

by Dorothy Pawluch

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202362507
• ISBN13: 9780202362502
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"