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Volume 328:1580 May 27, 1993 Number 21
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Comprehensive Adolescent Health Care

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Edited by Stanford B. Friedman, Martin Fisher, and S. Kenneth Schonberg. 1231 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Quality Medical, 1992. $85. ISBN 0-942219-14-7.

Comprehensive Adolescent Health Care is an encyclopedic textbook dealing with the physical and mental health of teenagers. The authors represent many different disciplines -- there are physicians from many specialties, as well as behavioral and education specialists, among others. The book is divided into five sections covering the principles of adolescent medicine; medical disorders; psychosocial issues; gynecology, urology, and sexual issues; and surgery in adolescents. The editors designed the book to provide comprehensive information on primary health care for adolescents and their families.

I read 80 of the 141 chapters and skimmed the remaining chapters to get an impression of . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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