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terms of its relation to the behavioral complex. It is not surprising, therefore, that he focusses mainly upon the circumpuberal period. Here, obviously, the early-to-late maturation sequence may be a potent factor in the growing child's concept of self, i.e., the feeling of conformity in age and sex peer grouping. Here a real psychosomatic relationship may exist. I think that pediatricians may read this book with considerable profit. While it will not give all the growth answers for an individual case--and, indeed, no single book or single viewpoint can--
it will help to answer questions and to provide counseling in terms of how and at what age the child is maturing at the time of the prepuberal acceleration. As for educators and others in their field who may not have the biologic background to relate the biologic and behavioral areas of growth, this book may be a first step in jogging their thinking in the direction of a morphophysiologic framework. Similarly, the clinician may be stimulated to think in terms of a psychosocial framework.
The Compleat Pediatrician. Wilburt C. Davison, and Jeana Davison, edition 8, Durham, 1961, Duke University Press, 373 pages. Price $4.50. In this eighth revised edition, which is based on 3,250 recent articles, the results of the rapid pediatric progress of the past 4 years have been
interpreted and correlated with the accepted pediatric facts. Twelve thousand, six hundred and fifty-five lines have been changed, especially in cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, and mycology.
W.
M.
KROG2vIAN,
--W.
M.D.
C. D.
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terms of its relation to the behavioral complex. It is not surprising, therefore, that he focusses mainly upon the circumpuberal period. Here, obviously, the early-to-late maturation sequence may be a potent factor in the growing child's concept of self, i.e., the feeling of conformity in age and sex peer grouping. Here a real psychosomatic relationship may exist. I think that pediatricians may read this book with considerable profit. While it will not give all the growth answers for an individual case--and, indeed, no single book or single viewpoint can--
it will help to answer questions and to provide counseling in terms of how and at what age the child is maturing at the time of the prepuberal acceleration. As for educators and others in their field who may not have the biologic background to relate the biologic and behavioral areas of growth, this book may be a first step in jogging their thinking in the direction of a morphophysiologic framework. Similarly, the clinician may be stimulated to think in terms of a psychosocial framework.
The Compleat Pediatrician. Wilburt C. Davison, and Jeana Davison, edition 8, Durham, 1961, Duke University Press, 373 pages. Price $4.50. In this eighth revised edition, which is based on 3,250 recent articles, the results of the rapid pediatric progress of the past 4 years have been
interpreted and correlated with the accepted pediatric facts. Twelve thousand, six hundred and fifty-five lines have been changed, especially in cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, and mycology.
W.
M.
KROG2vIAN,
--W.
M.D.
C. D.