The New Pediatrics: A Profession in Transition

by Pawluch,Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9780202305349
• ISBN10: 0202305341
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The new pediatrics that has developed over the past several decades defines itself by its shift away from the physical problems of children to encompass their emotional, psychological, social, and even, as some pediatricians have interpreted, their spiritual well-being. In an engaging, nontechnical style, Dorothy Pawluch also discusses the human impact of transforming technologies on the individual practitioners. All disciplines concerned with the role of the child in society must pause to think about the inner world of the profession that for over a century has argued that children and their problems, medical and otherwise, are different and also claimed that it, better than anyone else, understands these problems.

Author Biography

Dorothy Pawluch is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Brief History of Pediatrics: A Background

The Dissatisfied Pediatrician Crisis

The Supply Crisis

Redefining Pediatrics

Assessing the New Pediatrics

Conclusions and Theoretical Considerations

Appendix

References

Index

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