Overview
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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
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Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA
Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
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Anne C. Petersen
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Department of Individual and Family Studies, College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxix
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Biological Aspects of Puberty
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- Jerry R. Klein, Iris F. Litt
Pages 73-88
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- Gordon B. Cutler Jr., Florence Comite, Jean Rivier, Wylie W. Vale, D. Lynn Loriaux, William F. Crowley Jr.
Pages 89-102
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Psychological Aspects of Puberty
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Front Matter
Pages 103-103
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- Maryse H. Tobin-Richards, Andrew M. Boxer, Anne C. Petersen
Pages 127-154
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- Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Diane N. Ruble
Pages 155-177
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Sociocultural Aspects of Puberty
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Front Matter
Pages 199-199
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- John P. Hill, Mary Ellen Lynch
Pages 201-228
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- Roberta G. Simmons, Dale A. Blyth, Karen L. McKinney
Pages 229-272
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- Ouida E. Westney, Renee R. Jenkins, Constance A. Benjamin
Pages 273-300
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The Study of Puberty
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Front Matter
Pages 323-323
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Back Matter
Pages 339-341
About this book
The publication of this volume at this time appears particularly auspi cious. Biological, psychological, and social change is greater during the pubertal years than at any other period since infancy. While the past two decades have witnessed a virtual explosion of productive research on the first years of life, until recently research on adolescence, and particularly on puberty and early adolescence, has lagged substantially behind. This book provides encouraging evidence that things are changing for the better. Considered separately, the individual chapters in this book include important contributions to our growing knowledge of the biological mechanisms involved in pubertal onset and subsequent changes, as well as of the psychological and social aspects of these changes, both as con sequences and determinants. In this regard, the book clearly benefits from the breadth of disciplines represented by the contributors, includ ing developmental endocrinology, adolescent medicine, pediatrics, psy chology, and sociology, among others.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
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Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
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Department of Individual and Family Studies, College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Anne C. Petersen