A noncategorical approach to chronic childhood illness.
PubMedPublished 12 October 1982Open access
Ruth E. K. Stein, Dorothy Jones Jessop
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Of the illness and the impact that it has on the child, his parents, and his is more significant than the specific character of the disorder, be it diabetes, cerebral palsy, etc.
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