Medical Specialty

Pediatrics

Primary Care Specialties
Origin Consolidated as a specialty over the nineteenth century, marked by dedicated childrens hospitals such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, founded in London in 1852.

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with the health and medical care of infants, children and adolescents. It emerged as a recognized specialty in the nineteenth century, driven by growing attention to child mortality and the founding of dedicated childrens hospitals such as Londons Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street in 1852. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.

Facts
Origin Period
Consolidated as a specialty over the nineteenth century, marked by dedicated childrens hospitals such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, founded in London in 1852. 2
Age Group
Paediatric 3
Classification
Type/Classification
Clinical Specialty 1
FAQs

Why did pediatrics emerge as a specialty?

Growing attention to child mortality in the nineteenth century.

Pediatrics emerged as a recognized specialty in the nineteenth century, driven by growing attention to child mortality and the founding of dedicated children's hospitals.

Which early children's hospital is cited in pediatrics history?

The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, founded 1852.

London's Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, founded in 1852, is cited as one of the dedicated children's hospitals of that era.
Connections

Associated With

Autism, Conditions
Cerebral Palsy, Conditions

Group of movement disorders from early brain development; pediatrics specialty.

Family Medicine, Medical Specialties

Family physicians care for children

Universal neonatal hearing screening is a standard pediatric preventive care measure.

Notable Specialists

Source Abraham Jacobi (Wikipedia)
Source Albert Niemann (pediatrician) (source article)
Source Alina Margolis-Edelman (Wikipedia)
Al-Razi, Healers

Al-Razi is widely credited as an early pioneer of pediatric medicine, first to differentiate smallpox and measles.

Source Arthur Schlossmann (Wikipedia)
Arvo Ylppö, Healers
Source Arvo Ylppö (Wikipedia)
Beat Richner, Healers
Source Beat Richner (Wikipedia)

Benjamin Spock, author of Baby and Child Care, was a practicing pediatrician.

Source Berthold Epstein (Wikipedia)
Source Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (Wikipedia)
Source Cicely Williams (Wikipedia)
Source Dagfinn Aarskog (Wikipedia)
Source Detleff Neumann-Neurode (Wikipedia)
Source Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (Wikipedia)
Source Edith Lucie Bongo (Wikipedia)
Source Edward John Lewis (Wikipedia)
Emil Pfeiffer, Healers
Source Emil Pfeiffer (Wikipedia)
Source Ernesto Cofiño (Wikipedia)
Ernst Moro, Healers
Source Ernst Moro (Wikipedia)
Fe del Mundo, Healers
Source Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Fe del Mundo (Elizabeth Blackwell Award)
Additional Source Fe del Mundo (Wikipedia)Lead, specialty
Felix Würtz, Healers
Source Felix Würtz (source article)
Source Fernando Mönckeberg Barros (Wikipedia)
Source Françoise Dolto (Wikipedia)
Source Frederick Chapman Robbins (Wikipedia)
Source George Frederic Still (Wikipedia)
Source Gianna Beretta Molla (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia (Italian): Girolamo Mercuriale (Wikipedia, Italian)
Source Gregg L. Semenza (Wikipedia)
Hanan Costeff, Healers
Source Hanan Costeff (Wikipedia)
Hans D. Ochs, Healers
Source Hans D. Ochs (Wikipedia)
Source Harry Angelman (Wikipedia)
Source Heinrich von Ranke (Wikipedia)
Source Heinrich Willi (Wikipedia)
Source İhsan Doğramacı (Wikipedia)
Source Ingeborg Rapoport (Wikipedia)
Source Irma LeVasseur (source article)
Source Jaime Barros Pérez-Cotapos (Wikipedia)
Source James Mourilyan Tanner (Wikipedia)
Source Janusz Korczak (Wikipedia)
Source Jérôme Lejeune (Wikipedia)
Source Joycelyn Elders (Wikipedia)
Source Lisamaria Meirowsky (source article)
Source Luther Emmett Holt (Wikipedia)
Source Maria Montessori (Wikipedia)
Source Mary Ellen Avery (source article)
Source Michael Hermanussen (Wikipedia)
Source Murray Feingold (Wikipedia)
Source Nils Rosén von Rosenstein (Wikipedia)

Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first African-American woman to earn an MD in the US, wrote on maternal and child health.

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
WikipediaClassification table
Quote, Classification table
Medical specialties that focus on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of disease.
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2. A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner, CRC Press
  • Origin Period: Consolidated as a specialty over the nineteenth century, marked by dedicated childrens hospitals such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, founded in London in 1852.
3. NHS Health Careers: NHS Health Careers: Paediatrics
NHS Health CareersLead
Quote, Lead
conditions that affect infants, children and young people
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
Françoise Dolto (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Françoise Dolto, Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Françoise Dolto, Article text
was a French pediatrician and psychoanalyst
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Frederick Chapman Robbins (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Frederick Chapman Robbins, Lead sentence, specialty
Quote, Notable Specialists: Frederick Chapman Robbins, Lead sentence, specialty
was an American pediatrician and virologist
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Abraham Jacobi (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Abraham Jacobi, Lead section, field of practice
Quote, Notable Specialists: Abraham Jacobi, Lead section, field of practice
was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics
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Berthold Epstein (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Berthold Epstein, Lead and biography
Quote, Notable Specialists: Berthold Epstein, Lead and biography
was a Czech pediatrician, professor and scientist
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Maria Montessori (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Maria Montessori, Article body [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Maria Montessori, Article body [specialist-in]
becoming an expert in pediatric medicine
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Alina Margolis-Edelman (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Alina Margolis-Edelman, Career
Quote, Notable Specialists: Alina Margolis-Edelman, Career
Margolis-Edelman became a pediatrician, working in the Łódź Pediatric Clinic
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Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Gerhardt is remembered for his pioneer work in pediatrics
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Heinrich von Ranke (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Heinrich von Ranke, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Heinrich von Ranke, Lead paragraph
was a German physiologist and pediatrician
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Emil Pfeiffer (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Emil Pfeiffer, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Emil Pfeiffer, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
was a German physician and pediatrician
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Dagfinn Aarskog (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Dagfinn Aarskog, Lead section
Quote, Notable Specialists: Dagfinn Aarskog, Lead section
Dagfinn Aarskog (10 December 1928-27 May 2014) was a Norwegian physician, geneticist, and professor of pediatrics.
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Arthur Schlossmann (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Arthur Schlossmann, Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Arthur Schlossmann, Article text
was a German pediatrician and social public health specialist
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Albert Niemann (pediatrician) (source article)
Notable Specialists: Albert Niemann (pediatrician), Paragraph 2
Quote, Notable Specialists: Albert Niemann (pediatrician), Paragraph 2
He later trained in pediatrics as an assistant at the Säuglingsheim
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Samuel Mitja Rapoport (source article)
Notable Specialists: Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Article text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Article text [specialist-in]
During his tenure at this hospital he served as a pediatrician and earned a second doctorate.
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Beat Richner (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Beat Richner, Lead paragraph and biography, English Wikipedia [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Beat Richner, Lead paragraph and biography, English Wikipedia [specialist-in]
Richner specialized in pediatric care at the Zürich Children's Hospital
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Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, Work, Pediatrics
Quote, Notable Specialists: Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, Work, Pediatrics
accepted an internship in pediatrics at the Babies Hospital in New York City
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Edith Lucie Bongo (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Edith Lucie Bongo, Biography, second paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Edith Lucie Bongo, Biography, second paragraph
She was a pediatrician, with HIV/AIDS as one of her main focuses.
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Irma LeVasseur (source article)
Notable Specialists: Irma LeVasseur, Lead paragraph [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Irma LeVasseur, Lead paragraph [in-group]
She was a pioneer in pediatric medicine and was the first French-Canadian woman to become a doctor.
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Mary Ellen Avery (source article)
Notable Specialists: Mary Ellen Avery, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Mary Ellen Avery, Lead
was an American pediatrician
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İhsan Doğramacı (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: İhsan Doğramacı, Hacettepe University
Quote, Notable Specialists: İhsan Doğramacı, Hacettepe University
Doğramacı became a Professor of pediatrics in 1955.
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Ernesto Cofiño (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ernesto Cofiño, Life and works
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ernesto Cofiño, Life and works
Cofiño was the first University Professor of Pediatrics in the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala medical school
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Vera Weizmann (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Vera Weizmann, Career [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Vera Weizmann, Career [specialist-in]
Weizmann gave up her work as a pediatrician
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Fernando Mönckeberg Barros (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Academic career, third paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Academic career, third paragraph
In 1965, he became a professor of pediatrics at the University of Chile
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Hans D. Ochs (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hans D. Ochs, Wikipedia article, lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hans D. Ochs, Wikipedia article, lead [in-group]
is an immunologist and pediatrician
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Lisamaria Meirowsky (source article)
Notable Specialists: Lisamaria Meirowsky, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Lisamaria Meirowsky, Lead
was a German dermatologist and pediatrician
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Felix Würtz (source article)
Notable Specialists: Felix Würtz, Life [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Felix Würtz, Life [specialist-in]
This book is an important contribution to pediatrics.
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Heinrich Willi (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Heinrich Willi, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Heinrich Willi, Lead sentence [in-group]
was a Swiss pediatrician who specialised in neonatology
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Michael Hermanussen (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Michael Hermanussen, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Michael Hermanussen, Lead sentence [in-group]
is a German pediatrician and professor at the University of Kiel
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Thomas David Lister (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Thomas David Lister, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Thomas David Lister, Lead
was a British physician, surgeon, paediatrician, and expert on tuberculosis
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Edward John Lewis (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Edward John Lewis, Lead and biography
Quote, Notable Specialists: Edward John Lewis, Lead and biography
He began his speciality in pediatrics when he took up a position as surgeon at Clergy Orphan School in Marylebone
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Detleff Neumann-Neurode (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Detleff Neumann-Neurode, Article text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Detleff Neumann-Neurode, Article text [specialist-in]
pioneering German pediatric physical therapist
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Jaime Barros Pérez-Cotapos (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Jaime Barros Pérez-Cotapos, Article lead, profession
Quote, Notable Specialists: Jaime Barros Pérez-Cotapos, Article lead, profession
graduated as physician from the University of Chile in 1937, specializing in pediatrics
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Rina Zaizov Marx (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Rina Zaizov Marx, Lead and career text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Rina Zaizov Marx, Lead and career text
a renowned pediatrician who specialized in hemato-oncology
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Murray Feingold (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Murray Feingold, Lead, pediatrics
Quote, Notable Specialists: Murray Feingold, Lead, pediatrics
was an American pediatrician, geneticist, and founder of the Feingold Center for Children in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Hanan Costeff (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hanan Costeff, Career
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hanan Costeff, Career
Costeff acted as a pediatrician in clinics in Kiryat Shmona
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Fe del Mundo (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Fe del Mundo, Lead, specialty
Quote, Notable Specialists: Fe del Mundo, Lead, specialty
(born Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva; November 27, 1911, August 6, 2011) was a Filipino pediatrician.
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Fe del Mundo (Elizabeth Blackwell Award)
Hobart and William Smith CollegesNotable Specialists: Fe del Mundo, Award profile, career
Quote, Notable Specialists: Fe del Mundo, Award profile, career
headed the Department of Pediatrics at Far Eastern University for more than two decades
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Tomisaku Kawasaki (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Tomisaku Kawasaki, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Tomisaku Kawasaki, Lead
was a Japanese pediatrician who first described the condition now known as Kawasaki disease
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Janusz Korczak (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Janusz Korczak, Lead, specialty
Quote, Notable Specialists: Janusz Korczak, Lead, specialty
was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue
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Gregg L. Semenza (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Gregg L. Semenza, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Gregg L. Semenza, Lead
is an American pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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Jérôme Lejeune (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Jérôme Lejeune, Lead, field: pediatrics
Quote, Notable Specialists: Jérôme Lejeune, Lead, field: pediatrics
was a French pediatrician and geneticist
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Ernst Moro (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ernst Moro, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ernst Moro, Lead
was a Slovenian physician and pediatrician who was the first in western medicine to describe an infant reflex
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James Mourilyan Tanner (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: James Mourilyan Tanner, Lead, paediatrics
Quote, Notable Specialists: James Mourilyan Tanner, Lead, paediatrics
was a British paediatric endocrinologist who was best known for his development of the Tanner scale
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George Frederic Still (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: George Frederic Still, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: George Frederic Still, Lead
was an English paediatrician who helped to establish paediatrics as a new discipline
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Wikipedia (Italian): Girolamo Mercuriale (Wikipedia, Italian)
Wikipedia (Italian)Notable Specialists: Girolamo Mercuriale, Opere
Quote, Notable Specialists: Girolamo Mercuriale, Opere
Oltre a questo originale argomento scrisse opere di pediatria, di balneoterapia, di malattie della pelle, di tossicologia.
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Arvo Ylppö (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Arvo Ylppö, Lead, professor of pediatrics
Quote, Notable Specialists: Arvo Ylppö, Lead, professor of pediatrics
professor of pediatrics who significantly decreased Finnish infant mortality
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Zofia Zamenhof (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Zofia Zamenhof, Lead, pediatrician
Quote, Notable Specialists: Zofia Zamenhof, Lead, pediatrician
was a Polish pediatrician and a daughter of Klara Silbernik
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Nils Rosén von Rosenstein (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Nils Rosén von Rosenstein, Lead, pediatrics
Quote, Notable Specialists: Nils Rosén von Rosenstein, Lead, pediatrics
He is considered the founder of modern pediatrics
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Theodor Escherich (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Theodor Escherich, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Theodor Escherich, Lead
German-Austrian pediatrician
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Cicely Williams (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Cicely Williams, Early life
Quote, Notable Specialists: Cicely Williams, Early life
Williams decided to specialise in paediatrics
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Joycelyn Elders (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Joycelyn Elders, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Joycelyn Elders, Lead
is an American pediatrician and public health administrator
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T. Berry Brazelton (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: T. Berry Brazelton, Neonatal behavior
Quote, Notable Specialists: T. Berry Brazelton, Neonatal behavior
Brazelton's foremost achievement in pediatrics and child development
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Luther Emmett Holt (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Luther Emmett Holt, Life
Quote, Notable Specialists: Luther Emmett Holt, Life
He pioneered the science of pediatrics
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Harry Angelman (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Harry Angelman, Lead, profession
Quote, Notable Specialists: Harry Angelman, Lead, profession
consultant paediatrician who originally identified Angelman syndrome
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Gianna Beretta Molla (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Gianna Beretta Molla, Life
Quote, Notable Specialists: Gianna Beretta Molla, Life
where she specialised in paediatrics
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Ingeborg Rapoport (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ingeborg Rapoport, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ingeborg Rapoport, Lead
As a pediatrician, she helped to considerably reduce infant mortality in East Germany
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