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The Literature of Medicine |15 August 1993

Reviews, Notes, and Listings: Textbook of Adolescent Medicine

J. Dennis Fortenberry

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  • University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73105.
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Elizabeth R. McAnarney, Richard E. Kreipe, Donald P. Orr, and George D. Comerci; eds. 1280 pages. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company; 1992. $120.00.
Good textbooks are more than compendia of technical facts to which a practitioner turns as a chef to a cookbook. Textbooks outline the perimeters of a field; when asked for a definition of a pediatrician or internist, we may lift a text and reply, a master of this. The Textbook of Adolescent Medicine serves such a function for the subspecialty of adolescent medicine. Moreover, it points to the increasing sophistication all specialties need to treat adolescent patients.
The book's organization tells much about the breadth and depth of this emerging field. Four editors have used 9 consulting editors and 197 contributors to define the essential perspectives of adolescent medicine. The contributors support their discussions with data drawn from adolescents, rather than with extrapolations from younger or older age groups. For the internist who has struggled to deal with adolescents as somewhat capricious adults, such perspectives may be a revelation.
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Fortenberry JD. Reviews, Notes, and Listings: Textbook of Adolescent Medicine. Ann Intern Med. ;119:349–350. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-119-4-199308150-00033

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1993;119(4):349-350.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-119-4-199308150-00033

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