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Frank Falkner
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The Fels Research Institute, Wright State University School of Medicine, Yellow Springs, USA
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J. M. Tanner
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Institute of Child Health, London, England
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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Neurobiology
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- Gary Lynch, Christine Gall
Pages 125-144
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- E. Tronick, H. Als, T. B. Brazelton
Pages 305-328
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Nutrition
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Front Matter
Pages 329-329
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- Renate L. Bergmann, Karl E. Bergmann
Pages 331-360
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- Derrick B. Jelliffe, E. F. Patrice Jelliffe
Pages 395-405
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- George F. Cahill Jr., Aldo A. Rossini
Pages 407-414
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- Robert Balázs, Paul D. Lewis, Ambrish J. Patel
Pages 415-480
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- JoaquÃn Cravioto, Elsa R. Delicardie
Pages 481-511
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History of Growth Studies
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Front Matter
Pages 513-513
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Growth, as we conceive it, is the study of change in an organism not yet mature. Differential growth creates form: external form through growth rates which vary from one part of the body to another and one tissue to another; and internal form through the series of time-entrained events which build up in each cell the special ized complexity of its particular function. We make no distinction, then, between growth and development, and if we have not included accounts of differentiation it is simply because we had to draw a quite arbitrary line somewhere. It is only rather recently that those involved in pediatrics and child health have come to realize that growth is the basic science peculiar to their art. It is a science which uses and incorporates the traditional disciplines of anatomy, physiology, biophysics, biochemistry, and biology. It is indeed a part of biology, and the study of human growth is a part of the curriculum of the rejuvenated science of Human Biology. What growth is not is a series of charts of height and weight. Growth standards are useful and necessary, and their construction is by no means void of intellectual challenge. They are a basic instrument in pediatric epidemiology. But they do not appear in this book, any more than clinical accounts of growth disorders. This appears to be the first large handbook-in three volumes-devoted to Human Growth.
Editors and Affiliations
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The Fels Research Institute, Wright State University School of Medicine, Yellow Springs, USA
Frank Falkner
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Institute of Child Health, London, England
J. M. Tanner