Early Child Care: The New Perspectives, by Caroline A. Chandler, Reginald S. Lourie, and Ann Dettuff Peters, edited by Laura L. Dittmann. New York: Atherton Press (70 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011), 1968, 385 pp., $8.95

This volume is a compilation of views expressed by a group of participants recognized for their knowledge of physical, mental, and psychologic growth and development. The conferences were sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Children's Hospital of Washington, D.C., and the Committee on Day Care of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association in a series of conferences in 1964 and 1965. The stated goal of these conferences was to establish a consensus to provide the practitioner with guidelines for early child rearing which might be useful, especially for individuals providing group care for young children and infants; these goals, unfortunately, were impossible to attain.

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Nomination for Martha May Eliot Award for 1967

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.37.5.793 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 37 (5) ◽

pp. 793-793

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New York ◽

Child Health ◽

Maternal And Child Health ◽

The United States ◽

American Public Health Association ◽

The Public ◽

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Health Association ◽

And Child Health

The American Public Health Association announces that the Martha May Eliot Award Committee is receiving nominations for the 1967 recipient. Former recipients have been Harold Coe Stuart, M.D., and Arthur J. Lesser, M.D. The 1966 recipient has been selected and will be announced in June. The award is a handsome plaque bearing a bas relief of Dr. Eliot and a purse of $1,000, made possible by Ross Laboratories. The nominees must be professional workers from the field of maternal and child health; they need not be members and fellows of APHA. Preferably they should be workers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, but selection is not limited geographically. Preferably, too, nominees should still be active in their fields, and achievements indicating high quality and originality of contributions rather than longevity should be emphasized. Nominations are sought of persons who have made unusual contributions to education, administration or research in the field of maternal and child health. The purpose of the award is to honor unusual achievement in the field of maternal and child health, to bring such achievement to the eyes of related professional people and the public, to stimulate young people in the field to emulate the efforts resulting in such recognition, and to add within the profession and in the eyes of the public to the stature of professional workers in the field of maternal and child health. Nominations should be sent before August 15 to the American Public Health Association, 1790 Broadway, New York 10019. The name of the nominee should be accompanied by a clear succinct statement of the unusual achievement in the field of Maternal and Child Health which the nominator believes is worthy of the Martha May Eliot Award.

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