Child development and medical ontology
Social Science & Medicine Part A Medical SociologyPublished 1 January 1979
David Armstrong
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It is argued that by emphasising the importance of growth and development as an integral part of their knowledge base paediatrics has succeeded in breaking free from adult medicine and its atemporal model of disease.
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This paper describes the challenge of paediatrics to traditional medical nosography over the last few decades. It is argued that by emphasising the importance of growth and development as an integral part of their knowledge base paediatrics has succeeded in breaking free from adult medicine and its atemporal model of disease.
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MedicineHealth Professions
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