Faculty Bibliography

This is the korso, the local version of the Italian passeggiata, the ritualized stroll by evening past the palm trees and through the warm seaside night along the harbor, or into the old town, through the gates of Diocletian's Palace and on into the medieval town squares. Before Yugoslavia fell apart, the Dalmatian coast was the center of a thriving tourist industry, but during the recent war, some of the cities on the coast - most notably Dubrovnik, but also Zadar - suffered heavy shelling. We were making a slightly eccentric two-week trip, because Larry, my traveling companion, is a historian interested in the Venetian imperial adventure in Dalmatia. Between 1409 and 1797, when Napoleon abolished the Venetian Republic, Venice ruled this strip of land directly across the Adriatic

A pediatrician discusses how often symptoms of health problems in children are just a fact of life in young children's worlds

A large body of medical knowledge exists that can inform the public policy debate as to whether the current needs and future life prospects of poor children could better be served in orphanages than by continuing safety net programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Medicaid, and Supplemental Social Security Income, which maintain children in families. This special article explores a century of pediatric and child psychiatry research covering five areas of potential biologic and social risk to infants and young children in orphanage care: (1) infectious morbidity, (2) nutrition and growth, (3) cognitive development, (4) socioaffective development, and (5) physical and sexual abuse. These data demonstrate that infants and young children are uniquely vulnerable to the medical and psychosocial hazards of institutional care, negative effects that cannot be reduced to a tolerable level even with massive expenditure. Scientific experience consistently shows that, in the short term, orphanage placement puts young children at increased risk of serious infectious illness and delayed language development. In the long term, institutionalization in early childhood increases the likelihood that impoverished children will grow into psychiatrically impaired and economically unproductive adults

This book walks an interesting line between medical thriller and novel of ideas; its plot twists combine ethical dilemmas out of the right-to-die controversy with crazed killers stalking hospital halls. The writer famous for her husband's death, the doctor who sees compassion in ending pain even when it means ending life, the president of the hospital with his corporate analysis of expenditure on the dying, the nurse who works among the dying patients these are the players. It exists, as a novel, in a fascinating border country where true-life medical drama, from-the-headlines controversy and good old-fashioned suspense all stake their claims, and the narrative tensions this creates are as palpable as the tensions of the novel's complex plot

Most health insurance companies now insist that new mothers and their newborn babies leave the hospital within 24 hours after the birth. Klass, a pediatrician, argues why this stay is just too short for most cases

Perri Klass comments on the Reach Out and Read program in Boston and the giving away of books to young patients by pediatricians

A short story is presented

Many parents worry about their children too much. Too much worry can be a bad thing. Parents need to allow their children to grow up and be themselves