PEDIATRICS AND SOCIETY

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A recent editorial entitled "Can the new pediatrics be practiced?" raised many significant issues which deserve elaboration. The "new" pediatrics has been developing over a period of years and it might be advantageous, therefore, to view the development of current pediatric practice and education in the somewhat broader historical perspective of social process. Since each person views social process from the vantage point of his own background and experience, these observations are not presented with the thought that they are a consensus of pediatricians generally. I should emphasize at the outset, however, that I am not presenting value judgments, but rather that I am making an effort to record certain trends of which we should take note. For if we are aware of social process, we are in a better position to direct it in the interests of progress rather than to drift randomly.

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