Faculty Bibliography

Klass opines that her role as a medical journalist is to recognize and incorporate the complexities of her professional subjectivity; to use her sense of identification, accumulated experience, and privileges of access; to tell slightly different stories; or to tell stories slightly differently. She further shares her dilemma as she moves between being a doctor and a medical journalist

From fashion icon to stage actress, Brooke Shields came of age in front of the camera. With her impending motherhood, she hopes to reinvent herself and shake off that teen-icon image for good

Most children reach each developmental milestone from first step to first word, to first friendships more or less on schedule. Klass and Costello present three common areas of concern to determine whether something is wrong with the child. These include temperament and behavior, speech development, and social interaction

Klass discusses the need for parents to emphasize their role as a parent over their role as a playmate and friend to their children. She examines various behaviors that parents should avoid, such as living in fear of their child's anger, making child activities their passion, and organizing their lives around their children's needs and wants

This was not an obvious one, a January trip to Oslo. The last time I was there, I was 18, bumming around Europe with my boyfriend, Larry. We stayed in an Oslo campground, and I thought the city was beautiful. Of course, that was in August. But then recently the chance came up to spend a long winter weekend in Oslo, so Larry could do research on the painter Edvard Munch. And to be honest, I thought it would be fun to see a northern city in its true winter; days without sunlight, I imagined, snow heaped high along the streets. The frozen north. Our room, in the old part of the 252-room hotel, was large and warm and supremely comfortable, with plenty of pillows and comforters. And right outside the door was the center of Oslo, one block away from Karl Johans gate (street), the broad, majestic 19th-century avenue that sweeps from the central station to the royal palace. Oslo was founded (by the proverbial Viking king) a thousand years ago, but it took on its current shape after a fire in 1624, and a subsequent reconstruction by King Christian IV, who ruled over Denmark and Norway. The city is built along the island-filled Oslofjord, with the old castle of Akershus on one side of the harbor and the ultramodern steel and glass Aker Brygge district on the other, built on what had been an old shipyard. So what do you do on a winter weekend in Oslo? We visited the Munch Museum, of course, which was holding a suitably cheerful special exhibition: ''Love-Angst-Death.'' Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944, moved in the artistic circles of Berlin and Paris, but returned to Norway in 1909 and lived there for the rest of his troubled life. An Expressionist genius, the creator of ''The Scream,'' that famous totem of modern anxiety and hysteria, Munch is considered a giant in modern art. In his own country he stands alone, comparable to Ibsen in drama, although even more troubling and controversial. When Munch got involved with an image, he tended to repeat it over and over in different media and in slightly different forms -- as a painting, a woodcut, a lithograph. At the Munch Museum these different treatments were hung side by side, all of them parts of an extensive compositional series called ''The Frieze of Life.'' In the National Gallery, on the other hand, single Munch images (''The Scream,'' ''The Sick Child'') hang along with other important Norwegian paintings and a small collection of European old masters

Klass, a pediatrician, has encountered justifiably angry parents. However, Klass claims the professional right both to make mistakes and to remind parents that pediatrics isn't a science--it's an art. Klass notes that she handles logical issues more easily. She tries to return evening and weekend messages pretty promptly. Klass suggests that the key to parent-pediatrician relations is openness and honesty

Klass discusses some of the parenting techniques she has observed in her career as a pediatrician. Parents know their children well, and doctors should learn from their techniques and explanations and should also be sure to listen to an upset parent