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Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care
by Ellen C. Perrin, MD, 182 pp, $55, ISBN 0-306-46761-5, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:303.
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In the overview to Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care, Perrin aptly describes the book as an "idiosyncratic amalgam of the issues I consider important for practitioners of child health care to contemplate." She explains that she undertook the project after awakening to the widespread maltreatment of nonheterosexual people. As Dewitt adds in the foreword, this is not an academic treatise but a practical synthesis of Perrin's research and experience with the topic. In its writing, Perrin beautifully exemplifies the pediatrician engaged in matters of social justice.
The book features 7 chapters on the topics of stigma, homonegativity in medicine, developmental considerations, adolescents, children whose parents are lesbian or gay, opportunities for professional involvement, and resources. The text ultimately invites pediatricians to address the issues in the context of communities, hospitals and clinics, practice, research, and professional education. Given the emphasis on the pediatrician's role in caring . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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