Childhood and Adolescence

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Preface; Introduction; Cannabis and Pain Control in Pediatric Patients: Issues of Non-maleficence; Cannabis: Current Concepts Related to Pediatrics; Cloaking the Newborn from Suffering; The College Student and Abdominal Pain; Chronic Abdominal Pain in Childhood and Adolescence; Recognition and Treatment of Pain in Childhood; Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents; The Teenager, Musculoskeletal Disorders and Sports Injuries; Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent; About the Editors; About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medi-cine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.