Paediatric medicine

Disturbed children constitute a sizeable and varied percentage of the child population.

The chapters in this volume are drawn from the presentations delivered at a symposium on Developmental Disabilities in the Preschool Child.

This book, which proposes a developmental view of short-term inpatient treatment for severely disturbed children, is much needed in our field.

The past fifteen years have seen a resurgence of interest in the psychology of female development, impelled by factors both intrinsic and external to psychoanalysis.

Hyperactivity has historically been a major concern of parents and teachers.

The rapid growth of immunology has greatly increased our understanding of disease; this growth has also generated a subject which at times appears separated from some of the basic medical sciences.

The study of inherited metabolic disease became a subject of more than academic interest in 1953 when Bickel, Gerrard and Hickmans dis- covered that the totally disabling consequences of phenylketonuria could be prevented if treatment was instituted in the first months of life.

The maltreatment of children is an issue that has always been with us and civilized societies provide a range of services both social and medical to care for the children and families afflicted.

Cancer is an important cause of death within the first 15 played an important role in assembling valuable data concerning some of the less common neoplasms.

Molecular and Cell Biology of Muscular Dystrophy gives a series of accounts of various aspects of the remarkable breakthrough which has been achieved in our understanding of the Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies and of the consequences and ramifications of this breakthrough.

This book tries to trace the course of social development in the child from birth to maturity.

This volume contains the proceedings of a postgraduate course for medical practitioners of various specialties.

The concept of the foeto-placental unit as an integrated endocrine organ has been defined recently by many in vivo studies at the 17th- 20th week of gestation.

Parents of children born with mental or physical handicaps, tend to face the physician with questions about the origin of the abnormality concerned and the chance of having another child with the same condition.

The course of history is never one of smooth progression.

For almost four decades the Josiah Macy, Jr.

1 This book is meant to be a practical guide to interpretation of renal biopsy specimens.

The sixteenth annual symposium of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism was held in Bristol from 12th to 14th July, 1978.

The Proceedings of the Fifth International Pediatric Nephrology Symposia are dedicated to those who make the writing possible: the delegates; those who wanted to attend, but could not, and to our colleagues, families and friends who helped organize the meeting.

When asked by students of medicine to name a reliable, readable and adequately comprehensive text book of clinical paediatrics we have, in the past, been forced to recommend the least unsatisfactory among the large number of not quite good enough books on the market.

The aim of this book is to provide a practical guide to help junior doctors to manage the important acute paediatric problems they are likely to encounter.

Many clinical problems of transport have been known for decades, par- ticularly those disorders involving the liver and kidney.

This book has been written with general practitioners primarily in view, describing common paediatric conditions that present in the outpatient clinics and those that require admission to hospital.

This book is made up of 16 papers delivered during the Paediatric Conference convened by the Royal College of Physicians of London on 20th and 21st October 1983.

This volume represents a review of recent work presented by eminent scientists at the Second International Symposium on 'Applied Physiology in Critical Care with Emphasis on Children' at Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, November 28 - 2 December, 1983.

In a relatively short period of time two-dimensional echocardiography has become the most important non-invasive diagnostic tool in the daily practice of a pediatric cardiologist who predominantly deals with congenital structural heart disease in neonates and infants.

Perinatal Medicine is a relatively new specialty, sited between the mechanistic approach of traditional obstetrics and the anticipatory and preventative out- look expressed in the study of fetal growth which extends into monitoring neo- natal progress and development.

Disorders of the upper respiratory tract and the ear medical care.

In 1981 Dr Jean Lintermans published, with Dr van Dorp, a superb vol- ume, 'Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Echocardiography'.

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This volume contains the texts of the principal survey papers presented at ALGORITHMS -and ORDER, held* at Ottawa, Canada from June 1 to June 12, 1987.

The Interfaces of Perinatal Addiction Ira J ChasnofT In the last few years, problems associated with drug use in pregnancy have become endemic.

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After 17 years, the Nutricia Symposium retumed to its horne grounds in The of the 10th Nutricia Netherlands, where the first five Symposia were held.

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With improved control of most environmental causes of disease, genetic illness has assumed a primary importance in the causation of handicap and mortality in all age groups.

This book arises out of a workshop on lead exposure and child development which was held at the University of Edinburgh on 8th-12th September 1986.

The mechanisms by which animals regulate the volume and composition of their body fluids has long had a particular fascination for students of biology.