Clinical Paediatrics and Child Health

Children are different. They are not just small adults but are growing and changing all the time a fact that must not be forgotten or ignored when children are ill.

This new textbook of paediatrics offers a unique approach that takes the age of children into account. It is divided into two separate and distinct parts: Section 1 deals with children at various ages from before birth through adolescence and studies the normal growing child and common illnesses, using a symptom-based approach; Section 2 provides a mini encyclopaedia of paediatric disorders, their aetiology, incidence, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management. Cross references provide the necessary links between the two parts to avoid repetition.

Clinical Paediatrics and Child Health was written primarily with medical students in mind and should form an excellent foundation andcompanion for their paediatric course. In addition, the book will be useful to general practitioners, nurses and others who need a chronological overview of the common signs and symptoms of childhood illness and a short reference book of paediatric disorders.

Modelled on the very successful medical textbook, Kumar and Clark: Clinical Medicine, this book shares many of the same features:

chapters are colour-coded so that the reader can see easily where a chapter starts and ends

information, emergency and practical boxes appear throughout and are highlighted in colour

the text is written in a clear and interesting style, well broken up with headings and sub-headings.