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The Heart of a Child: What Families Need to Know About Heart Disorders in Children, 2nd ed
by Catherine A. Neill, MD, Edward B. Clark, MD, and Carleen Clark,
RN, 345 pp, $17.95, paperback, ISBN 0-8018-6636-7, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2001.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156:90.
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How frail the human heart must be—a mirrored pool of thought.
So deep and tremulous an instrument of glass that it can either sing, or weep.—Sylvia Plath,
"I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt," 1946
That "Heart Disorders" rather than "Heart Diseases" is used in the subtitle
of the second edition of this comprehensive and justifiably acclaimed text
indicates the authors' sensitivity to parents of children with heart problems.
The text's cardiologic science, wise child-in-context approach, and sensible-but-caring
attitude are a credit to its 3 authors: Neill, an emerita professor of pediatrics
at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, and a clinical pediatric cardiologist
with wide experience; Edward Clark, the medical director of the Primary Children's
Medical Center at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake
City, and chairman of that university's Department of Pediatrics; and Carleen
Clark, a school and public health nurse who . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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