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By Thomas Maier. 520 pp., illustrated. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1998. $30. ISBN 0-15-100203-7.

Over the years pediatricians have made important contributions to our understanding of such areas as infectious disease, genetics, and immunology, but as a group they seldom acquire the academic and scientific prestige achieved by many other members of the medical profession. They become neither rich nor famous. Benjamin Spock is the exception; in 1946, with the publication of his book The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce), this patrician Connecticut Yankee became the most famous pediatrician in this country, if not the world. With the exception of the Bible, Baby and Child . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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