Title: The Children's Hospital Guide to Your Child's Health and Development [Hardcover] Children's Hospital; Boston, Children's Hospital; Kenna, M.D., Margaret A.; Shane, Ph.D., Howard C. and Woolf, M.D., Alan D.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 073820241X
ISBN 13: 9780738202419
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New

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Based on the research and clinical experience of America's leading children's hospital, this reference work, several years in the making, is the most complete and authoritative guide to child health and development ever published. Three essential parts form this unique work: a detailed account of all aspects of normal development from birth through the school years, a carefully designed emergency section, and a comprehensive guide to every common illness or condition that affects children.For the first time, a single work offers parents all the medical, psychological, and practical information they need to raise healthy children from birth through elementary school. Packed full of information on symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, vital, up-to-date advice for choosing medical care and insurance, and finding good childcare, the Children's Hospital Guide includes the charts of normal development at all ages, and a comprehensive resource section.

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Children's Hospital Boston, the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, is the nation's premier pediatric medical center and the world's leading pediatric research center. The team of distinguished medical editors and writers for this project was led by Alan D. Woolf, M.D., MPH, a prominent expert in public health and toxiciology, Margaret A. Kenna, M.D., pediatric otolaryngologist, and Howard Shane, Ph.D., an expert on child development and communication enhancement, all faculty members of Harvard Medical School.

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